The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 3J. & J. Harper, 1835 |
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... character of the whole edifice . The expense would indeed be excessive in these times of ours : nothing less than a princely outlay could restore the original Gothic with all those jewels of carving and sculpture , in the absence of ...
... character of the whole edifice . The expense would indeed be excessive in these times of ours : nothing less than a princely outlay could restore the original Gothic with all those jewels of carving and sculpture , in the absence of ...
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... character of the figure must dictate the dimensions and projec- tions of the basis - long experience has pointed out this as the only safe and true rule , and Gibbons seems to have found it and followed it . Having succeeded so ...
... character of the figure must dictate the dimensions and projec- tions of the basis - long experience has pointed out this as the only safe and true rule , and Gibbons seems to have found it and followed it . Having succeeded so ...
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... character of the first of our Eng- lish sculptors who shall inform us , since contem- porary biographers have been silent ? We may sur- mise from the Diary of Evelyn , that he was modest , and remembered acts of kindness ; and we may ...
... character of the first of our Eng- lish sculptors who shall inform us , since contem- porary biographers have been silent ? We may sur- mise from the Diary of Evelyn , that he was modest , and remembered acts of kindness ; and we may ...
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... characters was subordinate to architecture . How long Cibber continued in the employment of Stone we are not told ; that he behaved worthily there can be no doubt , for he was made his foreman -a place of much labour and little dignity ...
... characters was subordinate to architecture . How long Cibber continued in the employment of Stone we are not told ; that he behaved worthily there can be no doubt , for he was made his foreman -a place of much labour and little dignity ...
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... un- civilized nations , had nearly extinguished the liberal arts in Europe . " This terrific King Cadwollo was probably of the same grotesque character of art with those city frights , the Gog and Magog of 24 EMINENT SCULPTORS .
... un- civilized nations , had nearly extinguished the liberal arts in Europe . " This terrific King Cadwollo was probably of the same grotesque character of art with those city frights , the Gog and Magog of 24 EMINENT SCULPTORS .
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Achilles admiration Alexander Johnston allegory ancient angels antique appeared artist Bacon Banks beauty bust bust sculpture carved character Chatsworth chisel Church Cibber clay Damer daughter designs dignity divine drapery drawings Duke Edward Walpole elegance Elgin marbles eminent executed exhibited fame father favourite feeling figures Flaxman gallery gave genius Gibbons Gothic grace Greece groups guineas hand head hero Hesiod Homer honour Horace Walpole imagined imbody Italy John Flaxman Joseph Nollekens labour lady living look Lord Lord Castlereagh loved magnificent marble ment merit Michael Angelo mind monu monument nature never noble Nollekens painter painting pedestal person Phidias plaster pleased poet poetic poetry portrait pounds praise Rome Roubiliac Royal Academy says Smith sculp sculptor seems sentiment simplicity sketches skilful skill spirit splendid statue talents taste thing thought thousand guineas tion ture Venus Walpole Westminster Abbey wife Wilton workmanship