The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 3Harper, 1846 |
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... and god- desses , and fauns with cloven heels , at due distances about groves and lawns , " Homer , Cæsar , and Nebuchadnezzar , All standing naked in the open air , " was , according to the creed of the time , 20 EMINENT SCULPTORS .
... and god- desses , and fauns with cloven heels , at due distances about groves and lawns , " Homer , Cæsar , and Nebuchadnezzar , All standing naked in the open air , " was , according to the creed of the time , 20 EMINENT SCULPTORS .
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... Homer and Virgil sung - whom Apelles painted , and Phidias carved . Opulent noblemen now collected from fo- reign lands many fine antique groups and statues and busts , and exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid ...
... Homer and Virgil sung - whom Apelles painted , and Phidias carved . Opulent noblemen now collected from fo- reign lands many fine antique groups and statues and busts , and exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid ...
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... Homer of Greece would be infinitely more gratifying than the sublimest fictions of art ; we would rather see a cold clod - like cast of his face than his imaginary head by Phidias . But this cannot be , even in Shaks- peare's case : and ...
... Homer of Greece would be infinitely more gratifying than the sublimest fictions of art ; we would rather see a cold clod - like cast of his face than his imaginary head by Phidias . But this cannot be , even in Shaks- peare's case : and ...
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... Homer , and regarded all those who refused to own the supremacy of the antique sculpture as masons and stone - cutters . Roubiliac , on the other hand , was bred in the school of Bernini : he thought the austere composure of the ancient ...
... Homer , and regarded all those who refused to own the supremacy of the antique sculpture as masons and stone - cutters . Roubiliac , on the other hand , was bred in the school of Bernini : he thought the austere composure of the ancient ...
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... Homer was , I fear , through the medium of Macpherson , whose translation ap- peared during the course of his studies , and of which the sculptor was a passionate admirer . His love of 74 EMINENT SCULPTORS . THOMAS BANKS.
... Homer was , I fear , through the medium of Macpherson , whose translation ap- peared during the course of his studies , and of which the sculptor was a passionate admirer . His love of 74 EMINENT SCULPTORS . THOMAS BANKS.
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Seite 55 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Seite 226 - I stood near him ; and his face, to use the expression of the Scripture of the first martyr— his face was as if it had been the face of an angel.
Seite 6 - In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c.
Seite 12 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions . of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Seite 271 - Yclad in mighty arms and silver shield, Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield : Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit, As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit.
Seite 226 - ... them the figure of their deliverer in the well-earned triumph of his important victory, from the whole of that grave multitude there arose an involuntary burst of gratitude and transport They jumped upon him, like children on a long absent father.
Seite 6 - I questioned him why he worked in such an obscure and lonesome place; he told me it was that he might apply himself to his profession without interruption, and wondered not a little how I had found him out.
Seite 297 - But we possess in England the most precious examples of Grecian power in the sculpture of animals. The horses of the frieze in the Elgin collection appear to live and move, to roll their eyes, to gallop, prance, and curvet; the veins of their faces and legs seem distended with circulation; in them are distinguished the hardness and decision of bony forms, from the elasticity of tendon, and the softness of flesh. The beholder is charmed with the deer-like lightness and elegance of their make, and...
Seite 308 - John Flaxman, RAPS, whose mortal life was a constant preparation for a blessed immortality : his angelic spirit returned to the Divine Giver on the 7th of December, 1826, in the seventy-second year of his age.
Seite 157 - This draws new clients daily, to my house, Women and men of every sex and age, That bring me presents, send me plate, coin, jewels, With hope that when I die (which they expect Each greedy minute) it shall then return Ten-fold upon them; whilst some, covetous Above the rest, seek to engross me whole, And counter-work the one unto the other, Contend in gifts, as they would seem in love...