Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London: With Catalogues of the Pictures, Accompanied by Critical, Historical, and Biographical Notices, and Copious Indexes to Facilitate Reference, Teil 2J. Murray, 1842 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable angels antique appears artist attributed background BASSANO BERGHEM CARLO CIGNANI CARRACCI cartoon Catalogue Catherine celebrated Charles Charles II Christ collection colour composition copy Countess Cupid CUYP DANIEL SEGHERS daughter death died drapery drawing dress Duchess Duke Dutch Dyck Earl Elizabeth England Engraved executed expression exquisite figures foreground FRANCIS BOURGEOIS full-length Gallery George Giorgione Giulio Romano GUERCINO GUIDO half-length hand head Henry VIII Holbein holding horse inscribed James JAN MIEL King Charles's KNELLER Lady large picture Lely life-size Lionardo da Vinci Lord LUDOVICO CARRACCI Mary Michael Angelo MURILLO Museum NICOLO POUSSIN niello Nymphs original painted painter Palace PAUL VERONESE Peter Philip Portrait Post 8vo POUSSIN Prince Queen Raphael represented rich Royal Rubens seated seen SIR FRANCIS BOURGEOIS Sir John Soane sketch small Landscape small picture spirit standing style TENIERS TINTORETTO Titian Van Dyck Venus William Windsor woman Wouvermans
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 507 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Seite 359 - She was a Goddess of the infant world; By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height: she would have ta'en Achilles by the hair and bent his neck; Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel.
Seite 389 - Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.
Seite 490 - And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept." — Gen. c. 29, T. 11. ALONE, in the midst of a beautiful pastoral landscape, Jacob and Rachel, kneeling, embrace each other. A most charming picture, full of simplicity and sentiment. Those who have visited the Dresden Gallery will be reminded of Giorgione's picture of this subject.
Seite 389 - Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein...
Seite 394 - Perhaps not all this is owing to genius : something of this effect may be ascribed to the simplicity of the vehicle employed in embodying the story, and something to the decaying and dilapidated state of the pictures themselves.
Seite 394 - Not to speak it profanely, they are a sort of a revelation of the subjects of which they treat ; there is an ease and freedom of manner about them which brings preternatural characters and situations home to us with the familiarity of every-day occurrences ; and while the figures fill, raise, and satisfy the mind, they seem to have cost the painter nothing.
Seite 389 - A painter is allowed sometimes to depart even from natural and historical truth. Thus, in the cartoon of the Draught of Fishes, Raphael has made a boat too little to hold the figures he has placed...
Seite 568 - Progress," representing a room at White's. The total abstraction of the Gamblers is well expressed by their utter inattention to the alarm of fire given by 'watchmen who are bursting open the doors. To indicate the Club more fully, Hogarth has inserted the name of Black's. In 1726 there was a great fire in Spring Gardens : the Prince of Wales went to assist — the King was in Hanover.
Seite 394 - ... art — but here the painter seems to have flung his mind upon the canvas ; his thoughts, his great ideas alone prevail ; there is nothing between us and the subject ; we look through a frame, and see scripture-histories, and are made actual spectators of miraculous events.