 | Ralph Fletcher - 1846 - 120 Seiten
...in their portraits and in their expressive smiles, has personified modesty, maternal love, purity of mind, and in a word, grace itself. Nor did he impress this character on the countenance alone, but distributed it throughout the figure in its attitude, gesture,... | |
 | Theodore Henry Fielding - 1846 - 302 Seiten
...in their portraits and in their expressive smiles, has personified modesty, maternal love, purity of mind, and in a word, grace itself. Nor did he impress this character on the countenance alone, but distributed it throughout the figure in its attitude, gesture,... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1865 - 662 Seiten
...their portraits, and in their expressive smiles, has personified modesty, maternal love, purity of mind, and, in a word, grace itself. Nor did he impress...drapery, with a dexterity which may be admired, but never rivalled. His freedom of execution was a component part of this grace, which, indeed vanishes... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1867 - 654 Seiten
...their portraits, and in their expressive smiles, has personified modesty, maternal love, purity of mind, and, in a word, grace itself. Nor did he impress...drapery, with a dexterity which may be admired, but never rivalled. His freedom of execution was a component part of this grace which, indeed, vanishes... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1873 - 666 Seiten
...smiles, has personified modesty, maternal love, parity of mind. ami. in a word, grace itself. Nor diil he impress this quality on the countenance alone but...drapery, with a dexterity which may be admired, but never rivalled. His freedom of execution was a component part of this grace, which, indeed vanishes... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1873 - 664 Seiten
...tlfeir portraits, and in their expressive smiles, has personified modesty, maternal love, purity of mind, and, in a word, grace itself. Nor did he impress...alone, but distributed it throughout the figure in its attitu'le, gesture, ami action, and in the folds of the drapery, with a dexterity which may be admired,... | |
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His Madonnas enchant us, as Mengs observes, not because they possess the perfect lineaments of the Medicean Venus, or of the . celebrated daughter of Niobe ; but because the painter in their portraits, and in their expressive smiles, has personified modesty,... 