The Works of Jonathan Richardson: Containing I. The Theory of Painting. ... A New Edition, Corrected, with the Additions of An Essay on the Knowledge of Prints, and Cautions to Collectors. Ornamented with Portraits ...Printed at Strawberry-Hill [i.e. London] Sold by B. White and Son; T. and J. Egerton; J. Debrett; R. Faulder, and W. Miller; [and 3 others in London], 1792 - Engraving - 282 pages |
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... minds , words only drop them . The whole scene opens at one view , whereas the other way lifts up the curtain by little and little . We fee ( for example ) the fine profpe & t at Con- ftantinople , an eruption of Mount Etna , the death ...
... minds , words only drop them . The whole scene opens at one view , whereas the other way lifts up the curtain by little and little . We fee ( for example ) the fine profpe & t at Con- ftantinople , an eruption of Mount Etna , the death ...
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... art as it informs the mind , its merit is raifed ; it ftill gives pleasure , but it is not merely fuch . The painter now is not only what a wife orator who is a beautiful B 2 perfon , person , and has a graceful action , is to ( 7 )
... art as it informs the mind , its merit is raifed ; it ftill gives pleasure , but it is not merely fuch . The painter now is not only what a wife orator who is a beautiful B 2 perfon , person , and has a graceful action , is to ( 7 )
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... . Painting gives us not only the perfons , but the characters of great men . The air of the head , and the mein in general , gives ftrong indications indications of the mind , and illuftrates what the hiftorian ( 8 )
... . Painting gives us not only the perfons , but the characters of great men . The air of the head , and the mein in general , gives ftrong indications indications of the mind , and illuftrates what the hiftorian ( 8 )
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... mind , and illuftrates what the hiftorian fays more exprefsly and particularly . Let a man read a character in my ... minds , and to excite proper fentiments and reflections , as a hiftory , a poem , a book of ethics , or divinity : the ...
... mind , and illuftrates what the hiftorian fays more exprefsly and particularly . Let a man read a character in my ... minds , and to excite proper fentiments and reflections , as a hiftory , a poem , a book of ethics , or divinity : the ...
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... mind will be proportionably improved . So that fuppofing two men per- fectly equal in all other respects , only one is converfant with the works of the best masters ( well chofen as to their fubjects ) and the other not ; the former ...
... mind will be proportionably improved . So that fuppofing two men per- fectly equal in all other respects , only one is converfant with the works of the best masters ( well chofen as to their fubjects ) and the other not ; the former ...
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