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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... remained comparatively uncultivated . This branch depends , more than the others , on the rules of perspective , the perfection of colouring , and the charm of chiaroscuro . Pliny allows the ancients the use of but four colours , and ...
... remained comparatively uncultivated . This branch depends , more than the others , on the rules of perspective , the perfection of colouring , and the charm of chiaroscuro . Pliny allows the ancients the use of but four colours , and ...
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... remained for his improvement but a journey to Italy . Endowed with a full comprehension of his own character , he wasted not a moment on the acquisition of excellence incompat- ible with its fervour , but flew to the centre of his ...
... remained for his improvement but a journey to Italy . Endowed with a full comprehension of his own character , he wasted not a moment on the acquisition of excellence incompat- ible with its fervour , but flew to the centre of his ...
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... remained with Mr. Hudson he went to a sale of pictures , and just before the auctioneer commenced he observed a great bustle at the door , and heard " Pope ! Pope ! " whispered round the room . All drew back to make way for the poet to ...
... remained with Mr. Hudson he went to a sale of pictures , and just before the auctioneer commenced he observed a great bustle at the door , and heard " Pope ! Pope ! " whispered round the room . All drew back to make way for the poet to ...
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... remained five years , and practised his hand and eye , morning , noon , and night , in drawing from the antique , copying the best works of the old masters , and assiduous study of those paintings of an historic order which are ...
... remained five years , and practised his hand and eye , morning , noon , and night , in drawing from the antique , copying the best works of the old masters , and assiduous study of those paintings of an historic order which are ...
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... .n- ination . The climate of England impaired the health of Mrs. Cosway , and accompanied by her brother , she visited Italy , where she 1 1 Experiments in pictures and ladies ' colleges . remained nearly 206 GENERAL VIEW.
... .n- ination . The climate of England impaired the health of Mrs. Cosway , and accompanied by her brother , she visited Italy , where she 1 1 Experiments in pictures and ladies ' colleges . remained nearly 206 GENERAL VIEW.
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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...