 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1771 - 622 pages
...fays Proclus, who takes for his model Inch forms as nature produces, and confines himfelf to an exa& imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of difproportion, and fail very fhort of the true ftandard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed... | |
 | Several Hands - 1771 - 614 pages
...for his model fuch forms as nature produces, and confines himfelf to an i-xac't imitation of (hem. will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of difproportion, and fail very fliort of the true ftandard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...they call it inspiration ; a gift from heaven. The artist is supposed to have ascended the celestial regions, to furnish his mind with this perfect idea...full "of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, " when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy " any object... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 902 pages
...inspiration ; a gift from lit; ven. The artist is «upposed to have ascended the celestial region», to furnish his mind with this perfect idea of beauty....full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 928 pages
...they call it inspiration ; a gift from heaven. The artist is sup* posed to have ascended the celestial regions, to furnish his mind with this perfect idea...beauty. " He (says Proclus) who takes for his model guch forms as nature produces, and confines himself to an exact imitation of them, will never attain... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...to have ascended the celestial regions, to furnish his mind with this perfect idea of beauty. E 3 « He," says Proclus*, " who takes for his " model such...full " of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, " when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy " any object... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...to have ascended the celestial regions, to furnish his mind with this perfect idea of beauty. E 3 " He," says Proclus*, " who takes for his " model such...full " of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, " when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy " any object... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...call it inspiration ; a gift . from Heaven. The artist is supposed to have ascended the . celestial regions, to furnish his mind with this perfect idea...full of disproportion, and " fall very short of the true standard of beauty. " So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, " did not copy any object ever... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...they call it inspiration ; a gift from Heaven. The artist is supposed to have ascended the celestial regions, to furnish his mind with this perfect idea...full of disproportion, and " fall very short of the true standard of beauty. " So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, " did not copy any object ever... | |
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who takes for his model such forms as nature produces, and confines himself to an exact imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of... 
