The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volumen2J. & J. Harper, 1831 |
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... employed to embellish life , to preserve voluptuous images , and add to the sensual gratifications of man . For this we classed it among vain and merely ornamental things , and excluded it from among us . But this is not the principle ...
... employed to embellish life , to preserve voluptuous images , and add to the sensual gratifications of man . For this we classed it among vain and merely ornamental things , and excluded it from among us . But this is not the principle ...
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... employ his powers on subjects holy and pure . The grave simplicity of the Quaker con- tinued to the last in the looks and manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his ...
... employ his powers on subjects holy and pure . The grave simplicity of the Quaker con- tinued to the last in the looks and manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his ...
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... employed in finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much , and found civil and even kind . Burke also was in- dulgent ; but our artist conceived there was an air ...
... employed in finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much , and found civil and even kind . Burke also was in- dulgent ; but our artist conceived there was an air ...
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... employed him to paint the death of Epaminondas , as a com- panion to that of Wolfe , the death of the Chevalier Bayard , Cyrus liberating the family of the King of Armenia , and Segestus and his daughter brought before Germanicus . The ...
... employed him to paint the death of Epaminondas , as a com- panion to that of Wolfe , the death of the Chevalier Bayard , Cyrus liberating the family of the King of Armenia , and Segestus and his daughter brought before Germanicus . The ...
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... employing his time , can hardly be expected to re - read his discourses . - So regular were West's hours of labour , and so carefully did he calculate his time , that to describe one day of his life is to describe years . He rose early ...
... employing his time , can hardly be expected to re - read his discourses . - So regular were West's hours of labour , and so carefully did he calculate his time , that to describe one day of his life is to describe years . He rose early ...
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Página 72 - Barry, that the arms with which the ill dispositions of the world are to be combated, and the qualities by which it is to be reconciled to us, and we reconciled to it, are moderation, gentleness, a little indulgence to others, and a great deal of distrust of ourselves ; which are not qualities of a mean spirit, as some may possibly think them ; but virtues of a great and noble kind, and such as dignify our nature, as much as they contribute to our repose and fortune; for nothing can be so unworthy...
Página 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.
Página 232 - In painting, he contented himself with negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramanti and his successors, he concentrated, suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Página 137 - but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness in the air ; I heard a low and pleasant sound, and knew not whence it came.
Página 34 - When it was understood," said the artist, "that T intended to paint the characters as they had actually appeared on the scene, the Archbishop of York called on Reynolds, and asked his opinion; they both came to my house to dissuade me from running so great a risk. Reynolds began a very ingenious and elegant dissertation on the state of the public taste in this country, and the danger which every innovation incurred of contempt and ridicule, and concluded by urging...
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 143 - Belvidere, and all the grand works of ancient art. They were executed in a very superior style to those justly admired copies, being with their accompaniments terrific and grand in the highest degree. The Artist has endeavoured to emulate the grandeur of those seen in his vision, and to apply it to modern Heroes, on a smaller scale.
Página 231 - A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty ; the hump of his dwarf is impressed with dignity ; his women are moulds of generation ; his infants teem with the man ; his men are a race of giants. This is the
Página 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...