The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: Containing His Discourses, Papers in the Idler, the Journal of a Tour Through Flanders and Holland, and Also His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Том 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819 |
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... idea of its nomenclature , even in those parts which had got most into use in common life . But though Johnson had done much to enlarge and strengthen his habit of think- ing , Sir Joshua did not owe his first rudi- ments of speculation ...
... idea of its nomenclature , even in those parts which had got most into use in common life . But though Johnson had done much to enlarge and strengthen his habit of think- ing , Sir Joshua did not owe his first rudi- ments of speculation ...
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... 9th , 1778 , ) he says , - " Supposing this scheme to take place , [ the alteration above proposed , ] my idea is , to paint in the great space 3 deviating from it , he attained that grace which sheds SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . lix.
... 9th , 1778 , ) he says , - " Supposing this scheme to take place , [ the alteration above proposed , ] my idea is , to paint in the great space 3 deviating from it , he attained that grace which sheds SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . lix.
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... Florence . Another portrait of him is preserved in the Town - Hall at Plympton , also painted and presented by himself ; in this picture a red gown is ance at first sight impressed the spectator with the idea SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . Ixxvii.
... Florence . Another portrait of him is preserved in the Town - Hall at Plympton , also painted and presented by himself ; in this picture a red gown is ance at first sight impressed the spectator with the idea SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . Ixxvii.
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... idea of a well - born and well - bred thrown carelessly about him , and he is without a cap . One nearly resembling this , and painted before it , is at Taplow - Court . We have another portrait of our author in the dress of a Shepherd ...
... idea of a well - born and well - bred thrown carelessly about him , and he is without a cap . One nearly resembling this , and painted before it , is at Taplow - Court . We have another portrait of our author in the dress of a Shepherd ...
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... to which the other had no pre- tensions ; as Lælius knew nothing of painting , so our author had no claim either to the character of a military convey to posterity a more perfect idea of our illustrious хс SOME ACCOUNT OF.
... to which the other had no pre- tensions ; as Lælius knew nothing of painting , so our author had no claim either to the character of a military convey to posterity a more perfect idea of our illustrious хс SOME ACCOUNT OF.
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Страница 59 - A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them.
Страница 154 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent : as by reading the thoughts of others, we learn to think.
Страница xxix - their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life ; and in consequence you find there what you seldom find in other books.
Страница xiii - It is much to be regretted that he did not live to compose such a Discourse ; for, from the hand of so great and candid an Artist, it could not but have been highly curious and instructive.
Страница 77 - THIT value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. As this principle is observed or neglected, our profession becomes either a liberal art, or a mechanical trade.
Страница cxxii - ... his native humility, modesty, and candour never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation ; nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eye in any part of his conduct or discourse.
Страница 155 - The mind is but a barren soil; a soil V which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Страница 42 - You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it.
Страница 96 - And though in this respect the Venetians must be allowed extraordinary skill, yet even that skill, as they have employed it, will but ill correspond with the great style. Their colouring is not only too brilliant, but, I will venture to say, too harmonious, to produce that solidity, steadiness, and simplicity of effect, which heroic subjects require, and which simple or grave colours only can give to a work.
Страница 33 - However, as the practice of copying is not entirely to be excluded, since the mechanical practice of painting is learned in some measure by it, let those choice parts only be selected which have recommended the work to notice. If its excellence...