The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 1J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... contain some of the most glowing and graphic descriptions which we ever read . The History of the Jews embraced in the volumes before us , has already passed through three editions in England , and is highly and justly commended by many ...
... contain some of the most glowing and graphic descriptions which we ever read . The History of the Jews embraced in the volumes before us , has already passed through three editions in England , and is highly and justly commended by many ...
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... contained in the island ; and the biographical materials collected by the indiscriminating diligence of Vertue , and brightened here and there by the wit or the sagacity of Walpole , lie strangely heaped to- gether . The other sources ...
... contained in the island ; and the biographical materials collected by the indiscriminating diligence of Vertue , and brightened here and there by the wit or the sagacity of Walpole , lie strangely heaped to- gether . The other sources ...
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... contain few of those incidents which embellish the biographies of more stirring spirits , yet they are scarcely less alluring and in- structive . Their works are at once their actions and their history , and a record of the taste and ...
... contain few of those incidents which embellish the biographies of more stirring spirits , yet they are scarcely less alluring and in- structive . Their works are at once their actions and their history , and a record of the taste and ...
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... contained in his time one hundred and fifty pieces , including miniatures ; and when we reflect on the deficiency of ... contain the list of his pictures ; and though the artists ' names are not mentioned , it is easy to trace that many ...
... contained in his time one hundred and fifty pieces , including miniatures ; and when we reflect on the deficiency of ... contain the list of his pictures ; and though the artists ' names are not mentioned , it is easy to trace that many ...
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... contained in all four hundred and sixty pictures , by thirty - seven different artists . Of these eleven were by Holbein , eleven by Correggio , sixteen by Julio Romano , ten by Mytens , seven by Parmegiano , nine by Raphael , seven by ...
... contained in all four hundred and sixty pictures , by thirty - seven different artists . Of these eleven were by Holbein , eleven by Correggio , sixteen by Julio Romano , ten by Mytens , seven by Parmegiano , nine by Raphael , seven by ...
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Страница 157 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Страница 151 - ... as the back-ground and a dog, I began to consider how I could turn so much work laid aside to some account, and so patched up a print of Master Churchill in the character of a Bear. The pleasure and pecuniary advantage which I derived from these two engravings, together with occasionally riding on horseback, restored me to as much health as can be expected at my time of life.
Страница 198 - I ought to have done, was one of the most humiliating circumstances , that ever happened to me ; I found myself in the midst of works executed upon principles with which I was unacquainted: I felt my ignorance, and stood abashed.
Страница 177 - Poussin, to achieve it. In the picture alluded to, the first idea that presents itself is that of wonder, at seeing a figure in so uncommon a situation as that in which the Apollo is placed ; for the clouds on which he kneels have not the appearance of being able to support him...
Страница 275 - When they conceived a subject, they first made a variety of sketches ; then a finished drawing of the whole ; after that a more correct drawing of every separate part...
Страница 53 - I only have transferr'd it to her Eyes. Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Страница 275 - ... hands, feet, and pieces of drapery ; they then painted the picture, and after all retouched it from the life. The pictures thus wrought with such pains now appear like the effect of enchantment, and as if some mighty Genius had struck them off at a blow.
Страница 301 - We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company," and immediately expired — August 2nd, • 1788, in the sixty-first year of his age.
Страница 270 - I reflect not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration * Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest" arte da nutura, ma per lunyo studio. of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.