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... commissions from the other religious houses in that province , during the remainder of his life . The natural inclination for art evinced by RAFAEL MENGS in his childhood , was powerfully stimulated by his father , Ismael Mengs , who ...
... commissions from the other religious houses in that province , during the remainder of his life . The natural inclination for art evinced by RAFAEL MENGS in his childhood , was powerfully stimulated by his father , Ismael Mengs , who ...
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... commission declined receiving it , on the ground that the price demanded ( 500 crowns ) was excessive . The painter resumed possession of this masterpiece of art , refused to part with it at any price ; and , in 1537 , made a present of ...
... commission declined receiving it , on the ground that the price demanded ( 500 crowns ) was excessive . The painter resumed possession of this masterpiece of art , refused to part with it at any price ; and , in 1537 , made a present of ...
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... commission to paint two other pictures for their church . Vandyck received their offer , and returned for answer that there were " daubers " enough already in Courtray , and that therefore the importation of another from Antwerp would ...
... commission to paint two other pictures for their church . Vandyck received their offer , and returned for answer that there were " daubers " enough already in Courtray , and that therefore the importation of another from Antwerp would ...
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... commissions to execute the portraits of monarchs , because the rigid etiquette of their courts would have compelled him to " veil his bonnet " in the royal presence . When he was reproached with not having paid his court to the Cardinal ...
... commissions to execute the portraits of monarchs , because the rigid etiquette of their courts would have compelled him to " veil his bonnet " in the royal presence . When he was reproached with not having paid his court to the Cardinal ...
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... Commissions of a secular character he declined to receive , but selected his subjects exclusively from revelation ; and , says Cumberland , " as he gave them life , he gave them adoration . " ( F ) Painters , it must be confessed , have ...
... Commissions of a secular character he declined to receive , but selected his subjects exclusively from revelation ; and , says Cumberland , " as he gave them life , he gave them adoration . " ( F ) Painters , it must be confessed , have ...
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Page 58 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all-in-all his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music : / Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
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Page 197 - As we close it the club-room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of...
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Page 49 - Born to the spacious empire of the Nine, One would have thought she should have been content To manage well that mighty government ; But what can young ambitious souls confine ? To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture near adjoining lay, A plenteous province and alluring prey.
Page 399 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 198 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the 'Why, sir!
Page 403 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the...
Page 248 - 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 I knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a roseleaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral.
Page 198 - There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we...