 All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure, or even in the folds of the drapery, must be sparingly employed. In short, whatever partakes of fancy or caprice, or goes under the denomination of Picturesque...  The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]. - Page 42edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. 1 . • i Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...objects, as incompatible with its dignity; and is an enetany to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Hawks Le Grice - Sculptors - 1841 - 462 pages
...objection, the familiarity of modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular and austere; disdains...enemy to every species of affectation or appearance of academical art.All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a sin gle figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 1824 - 318 pages
...and where his subject has neither, he has adopted a robe de chambre, which is a nearer approach to Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by n& means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
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