The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 3J. & J. Harper, 1835 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 20
Seite 5
... Hill , where Lud's terrific image stood in the days of Bede : here he exhibited a pot of flowers , so exquisitely carved that the individual leaves quivered and shook with the motion of the passing coaches . Stone , on A 2.
... Hill , where Lud's terrific image stood in the days of Bede : here he exhibited a pot of flowers , so exquisitely carved that the individual leaves quivered and shook with the motion of the passing coaches . Stone , on A 2.
Seite 25
... exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid accounts of the Italian galleries , and every poet's verse bore a burden of goddesses and gods . The nation , in truth , had feasted to sur- feiting with the apostles , saints ...
... exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid accounts of the Italian galleries , and every poet's verse bore a burden of goddesses and gods . The nation , in truth , had feasted to sur- feiting with the apostles , saints ...
Seite 38
... exhibited once , it is said , the marvellous number of three thousand statues . " Even at this day , " observes Flaxman , " the number is very great , and it is another example of the asto nishing estimation and employment of sculpture ...
... exhibited once , it is said , the marvellous number of three thousand statues . " Even at this day , " observes Flaxman , " the number is very great , and it is another example of the asto nishing estimation and employment of sculpture ...
Seite 41
... exhibited the eminent composer in the act of rapturous meditation when the music had fully wakened up his soul . His gladness of face and agitation of body tell us , that the sculptor imagined Handel's finest strains to have been con ...
... exhibited the eminent composer in the act of rapturous meditation when the music had fully wakened up his soul . His gladness of face and agitation of body tell us , that the sculptor imagined Handel's finest strains to have been con ...
Seite 68
... exhibited the Pyramids of Egypt , a Sphinx , a Mummy , and a Spinning Ma- chine ! On the darkness of his sketch he threw a little light from his pen , and the whole became , in appearance , at once clear , consistent , and charac ...
... exhibited the Pyramids of Egypt , a Sphinx , a Mummy , and a Spinning Ma- chine ! On the darkness of his sketch he threw a little light from his pen , and the whole became , in appearance , at once clear , consistent , and charac ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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