The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper, 1833 |
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Seite 63
... knowledge of the ancients in anatomy is , I think , as observable in the Apollo and the Antinous , as it is in the Laocoon and the Torso , whose flesh is of a more rigid texture ; and the dis appearing of the muscles as the figure ...
... knowledge of the ancients in anatomy is , I think , as observable in the Apollo and the Antinous , as it is in the Laocoon and the Torso , whose flesh is of a more rigid texture ; and the dis appearing of the muscles as the figure ...
Seite 64
... knowledge of art and a full capacity for speech , wander from gallery to gallery , delivering opinions upon works of genius with a confidence which passes with the world for the offspring of re- fined taste and profound knowledge ...
... knowledge of art and a full capacity for speech , wander from gallery to gallery , delivering opinions upon works of genius with a confidence which passes with the world for the offspring of re- fined taste and profound knowledge ...
Seite 65
... knowledge and sense ; but he was deficient in that courtesy and graciousness of manner which takes the sting out of contradiction . He was yehement , and he was incensed : nor did he seek to conceal his indignation ; the consequences ...
... knowledge and sense ; but he was deficient in that courtesy and graciousness of manner which takes the sting out of contradiction . He was yehement , and he was incensed : nor did he seek to conceal his indignation ; the consequences ...
Seite 67
... knowledge and correctness , yet his os- tentation and show of this , and Raphael's art of con- cealing with choice of subject and pleasing well- wrought draperies - his want of it , bring them nearly to a level , at least with the bulk ...
... knowledge and correctness , yet his os- tentation and show of this , and Raphael's art of con- cealing with choice of subject and pleasing well- wrought draperies - his want of it , bring them nearly to a level , at least with the bulk ...
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... knowledge of the merits of Titian ! Having unconsciously done him these favours , his enemies commenced an attack upon him personally . " This , " he says with a smile , " was more in their power , for though the body and the soul of a ...
... knowledge of the merits of Titian ! Having unconsciously done him these favours , his enemies commenced an attack upon him personally . " This , " he says with a smile , " was more in their power , for though the body and the soul of a ...
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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 130 - 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 130 - 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!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Seite 126 - TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the ardour 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 ? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand form'd...
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 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 131 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read ' — So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear.
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 149 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Seite 102 - ... the meaner sort of painters, who counterfeit only such faces as are set before them, and the more excellent, who, having no law but wit, bestow that in colours upon you which is fittest for the eye to see...
Seite 31 - Forty years intercourse, we might almost say friendship, confirmed to the painter the accuracy of these words. "The king received West with easy frankness, assisted him to place the Agrippina in a favourable light, removed the attendants, and brought in the queen, to whom he presented our quaker. He related to her majesty the history of the picture, and bade her notice the simplicity of the design and the beauty of the colouring. ' There is another noble Roman subject...