Manual of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical: With an Introduction by D. Huntington, M.A.A. S. Barnes & Company, 1879 - 477 Seiten |
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... less sensual , more benevolent , more alive to the beauties of nature and truth , should be as generally cultivated as possible . The following work is intended to diffuse a taste for such studies , by gathering into a small compass ...
... less sensual , more benevolent , more alive to the beauties of nature and truth , should be as generally cultivated as possible . The following work is intended to diffuse a taste for such studies , by gathering into a small compass ...
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... less indispensable , though not less valuable , arts of architecture , sculpture , and painting . So many volumes were attributed to him , that no human being could possibly have composed them . All the successive improvements in ...
... less indispensable , though not less valuable , arts of architecture , sculpture , and painting . So many volumes were attributed to him , that no human being could possibly have composed them . All the successive improvements in ...
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... less importunate cravings of his inte..ectual nature called for gratification . However long , Adam and Eve may have dwelt in the garden of delights , before the fall , we can hardly suppose that they turned their attention in any way ...
... less importunate cravings of his inte..ectual nature called for gratification . However long , Adam and Eve may have dwelt in the garden of delights , before the fall , we can hardly suppose that they turned their attention in any way ...
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... less toilsome seeking after pleasure , are not sufficient to fill the desires of the human soul . Neither , indeed , can earth , with all its stores of nature and art , give it a safe resting - place ; its goal is beyond the confines of ...
... less toilsome seeking after pleasure , are not sufficient to fill the desires of the human soul . Neither , indeed , can earth , with all its stores of nature and art , give it a safe resting - place ; its goal is beyond the confines of ...
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... less imbued with its peculiar charac- teristics , which are , vivacity and truth of colour , perfect distribution of light and shade , boldness of touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well ...
... less imbued with its peculiar charac- teristics , which are , vivacity and truth of colour , perfect distribution of light and shade , boldness of touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well ...
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Academy admiration alto-relievo ancient antique Apelles Apollodorus appears architecture artist beauty born called celebrated century character chiaroscuro church Cimabue colossal colour columns composed composition copy Coreggio Dædalus delight distinguished Doric order drapery drawing effect Egyptian elegance eminent England Engraver entablature Etruscan excellence executed exhibited expression father feeling feet figures finished gave genius Giorgione grace grandeur Grecian Greece Greeks hand harmony head historical honour imagination imitation invention Ital Italian Italy king landscape light Lysippus manner marble masters merit Michael Angelo mind modern nature never objects opera original ornament Painter painting palace Paul Veronese pencil perfect Phidias picture poet poetry portrait Praxiteles principles produced Pythagoras Raphael Rembrandt represented Reynolds Roman Rome says scene sculpture seems Sicyon sketches spirit statues style sublime talents taste temple Terpander thing Timanthes Tintoretto tion Titian touch Venetian school West whole
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Seite 278 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Seite 27 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Seite 23 - Delightful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poetry, have a kindly Influence on the Body, as well as the Mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the Imagination, but are able to disperse Grief and Melancholy, and to set the Animal Spirits in pleasing and agreeable Motions.
Seite 25 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see, Even in the motions of the Storm, Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Seite 154 - I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show.
Seite 471 - The chorus in which that opera abounds gives the parterre frequent opportunities of joining in concert with the stage. This inclination of the audience to sing along with the actors, so prevails with them, that I have sometimes known the performer on the stage do no more in a celebrated song, than the clerk of a parish church, who serves only to raise the psalm, and is afterwards drowned in the music of the congregation.
Seite 437 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Seite 79 - He first introduced large drapery, flowing in an easy and natural manner : indeed he appears to be the first who discovered the path that leads to every excellence to which the Art afterwards arrived, and may therefore be justly considered as one of the Great Fathers of modern Art.
Seite 124 - Lorrain finished more minutely, as becomes a Professor in any particular branch, yet there is such an airiness and facility in the landscapes of Rubens, that a painter would as soon wish to be the author of them, as those of Claude, or any other artist whatever.
Seite 79 - THOUGH I have been led on to a longer digression respecting this great Painter than I intended, yet I cannot avoid mentioning another excellence which he possessed in a very eminent degree; he was as much distinguished among his contemporaries for his diligence and industry, as he was for the natural faculties of his mind. We are told, that his whole attention was absorbed in the pursuit of his art, and that he acquired the name of Masaccio*, from his total disregard to his dress, his person, and...