The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1859 |
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... Inventions , after an ex- periment or two , were placed under the fashionable graver of Louis Schiavonetti . Blake was deeply incensed - he complained that he was deprived of the profit of engraving his own designs , and , with ven less ...
... Inventions , after an ex- periment or two , were placed under the fashionable graver of Louis Schiavonetti . Blake was deeply incensed - he complained that he was deprived of the profit of engraving his own designs , and , with ven less ...
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... Inventions , as the artist loved to call them , there are twenty - one , representing the man of Uz sustaining his dignity amid the in- flictions of Satan , the reproaches of his friends , and the insults of his wife . It was in such ...
... Inventions , as the artist loved to call them , there are twenty - one , representing the man of Uz sustaining his dignity amid the in- flictions of Satan , the reproaches of his friends , and the insults of his wife . It was in such ...
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... Inventions of the Book of Job ; by this he earned money enough to keep him living - for the good old man still laboured with all the ardour of the days of his youth , and with skill equal to his en- thusiasm . These engravings are very ...
... Inventions of the Book of Job ; by this he earned money enough to keep him living - for the good old man still laboured with all the ardour of the days of his youth , and with skill equal to his en- thusiasm . These engravings are very ...
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... Inventions in these wild works , exhibit won- derful strength of drawing and splendour of colour- ing . Of loose prints - but which were meant doubt- less to form part of some extensive work - one of the most remarkable is the Great Sea ...
... Inventions in these wild works , exhibit won- derful strength of drawing and splendour of colour- ing . Of loose prints - but which were meant doubt- less to form part of some extensive work - one of the most remarkable is the Great Sea ...
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... Inventions for Job , was the pos- sessor of very lofty faculties , with no common skill in art , and moreover that ... invention . " A work - whether from poet or painter - conceived in the fiery ecstasy of imagination , lives through ...
... Inventions for Job , was the pos- sessor of very lofty faculties , with no common skill in art , and moreover that ... invention . " A work - whether from poet or painter - conceived in the fiery ecstasy of imagination , lives through ...
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admired Amelia Opie appeared artist Barry Barry's beauty Benjamin West Bird Blake brethren Burke called character colours companion compositions copy death Domenichino drawing easel eminent engravings excellence exclaimed exhibited eyes fame fancy father feeling Felpham finished formed fortune friends Fuseli gallery genius GEORGE MORLAND grace grave guineas hand happy Hassell Henry Fuseli historical honour imagination imbodied invention kind King labour lived London looked Lord Lord Grosvenor Majesty master merit Michael Angelo Milton mind Morland nation nature never Opie original painter painting pencil person picture Pindar poet poetic poetry portrait praise Prince Hoare productions Quaker racter Raphael Rembrandt Reynolds Rome Royal Academy says scene seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sistine Chapel sketches skill spirit talents taste temper thing thought tion Titian tures visions West wife wild wish Wolcot young
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Seite 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Seite 125 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Seite 131 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
Seite 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Seite 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Seite 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Seite 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Seite 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Seite 144 - How do we distinguish the oak from the beech, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements?
Seite 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...