The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 1J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... story over again . " - Blackwood . " This constitutes the seventh volume of the Family Library . It is incomparably the best life - the most careful and correct estimate of Alexander's achievements we have . " - Monthly Magazine ...
... story over again . " - Blackwood . " This constitutes the seventh volume of the Family Library . It is incomparably the best life - the most careful and correct estimate of Alexander's achievements we have . " - Monthly Magazine ...
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... story , which I can desire no one to credit , seeing that his majesty had ready access to the originals , is countenanced by an anecdote re- lated by Vermander . One day , while the artist was painting in private the portrait of a ...
... story , which I can desire no one to credit , seeing that his majesty had ready access to the originals , is countenanced by an anecdote re- lated by Vermander . One day , while the artist was painting in private the portrait of a ...
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... story of the church of King's College , Cambridge , of orient colours and imagery of the story of the Old Law and of the New Law , after the manner and goodness in every point of the king's new chapel at Westminster , also according to ...
... story of the church of King's College , Cambridge , of orient colours and imagery of the story of the Old Law and of the New Law , after the manner and goodness in every point of the king's new chapel at Westminster , also according to ...
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... story , had reappeared - when the fierce Puritans vanquished the chivalry of Charles , and purged anew the sanctuary , to the fullest sense of the proclamations of Henry , Edward , and Elizabeth . This cannot now be known . The fierce ...
... story , had reappeared - when the fierce Puritans vanquished the chivalry of Charles , and purged anew the sanctuary , to the fullest sense of the proclamations of Henry , Edward , and Elizabeth . This cannot now be known . The fierce ...
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... story : -- " After the Restoration , Charles made many inquiries about the miniatures of Oliver which had been in his father's gallery , and expressed a great desire to obtain them . He could hear no account of them . At last he was ...
... story : -- " After the Restoration , Charles made many inquiries about the miniatures of Oliver which had been in his father's gallery , and expressed a great desire to obtain them . He could hear no account of them . At last he was ...
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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*.