Lectures on the History and Principles of PaintingLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833 - 477 страница |
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... Italy was closed to us by being in possession of the French ; and I had relied upon the knowledge to be gathered from copies , prints , and drawings , and the admirable lectures of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. Fuseli , for all that I ...
... Italy was closed to us by being in possession of the French ; and I had relied upon the knowledge to be gathered from copies , prints , and drawings , and the admirable lectures of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. Fuseli , for all that I ...
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... Italy , accompanied by a most intelligent friend and brother artist . Actuated by congenial feelings , and unin- cumbered by even the slightest inclination to support exclusively any peculiar system of art , we entered upon the office ...
... Italy , accompanied by a most intelligent friend and brother artist . Actuated by congenial feelings , and unin- cumbered by even the slightest inclination to support exclusively any peculiar system of art , we entered upon the office ...
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... Italy . We saw with surprise , that the peculiar beauties of thought exhibited in those imperfect paintings had been ... ITALIAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN " : only regretting that he did not carry the just remarks he has made , farther . and M ...
... Italy . We saw with surprise , that the peculiar beauties of thought exhibited in those imperfect paintings had been ... ITALIAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN " : only regretting that he did not carry the just remarks he has made , farther . and M ...
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... Italy in search of beautiful art has been accustomed to see . While I have passed whole mornings in the Chapel ( on the coving and ceiling of which they are painted ) , engaged in the admiration and study of them , and ever finding ...
... Italy in search of beautiful art has been accustomed to see . While I have passed whole mornings in the Chapel ( on the coving and ceiling of which they are painted ) , engaged in the admiration and study of them , and ever finding ...
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... Italian art , ere it can be fully understood and enjoyed . " That class of imitation which is rendered so ... Italians , to aid the solemn purposes of the altar , in the display of subjects fraught with deep pathos , and intended to ...
... Italian art , ere it can be fully understood and enjoyed . " That class of imitation which is rendered so ... Italians , to aid the solemn purposes of the altar , in the display of subjects fraught with deep pathos , and intended to ...
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Страница 198 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Страница 195 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Страница 196 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Страница 312 - The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.
Страница i - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Страница 251 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Страница 447 - Thus if .a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has no other means than by approaching it to a general idea. He leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities in the face, and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent. which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us.
Страница 197 - So spake the grisly terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On...
Страница 370 - The common error that his colours all fail, ought by this time to be entirely effaced. It is too true that this is the case with the colouring of many pictures painted by him during a short period of his life; he thought that he had discovered a mode of rendering colouring more vivid, and employed it without duly considering the chemical qualities of his materials. But he was soon made acquainted with the mistake he had committed, reassumed his durable system with increased beauty and vigour, and...
Страница 343 - Consonance, or harmony of hue, consists in those colours being brought together, which, though they may not be placed exactly in the regular order seen in the rainbow or in the chromatic scale, yet act in accordance with each other upon the eye, and produce no uneasy sensations within it, but rather afford it pleasure.