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... original direction in our love of it . Thence comes our aptitude to find resemblances between various objects , and thence also the willingness with which , in our youth , we rush to meet every suggestion of our fancy , when very ...
... original direction in our love of it . Thence comes our aptitude to find resemblances between various objects , and thence also the willingness with which , in our youth , we rush to meet every suggestion of our fancy , when very ...
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... original feeling of the artists in either country , as distinct from each other . After the supposed period of the invention of letters to which I have alluded , the Egyptian priesthood continued to employ painting hiero glyphically ...
... original feeling of the artists in either country , as distinct from each other . After the supposed period of the invention of letters to which I have alluded , the Egyptian priesthood continued to employ painting hiero glyphically ...
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... original works must be seen to be duly estimated . In the transfer which is given of them in prints , or even copies , the delicacies of expression are too often lost , whilst all that is gothic and rude is retained . versed in their ...
... original works must be seen to be duly estimated . In the transfer which is given of them in prints , or even copies , the delicacies of expression are too often lost , whilst all that is gothic and rude is retained . versed in their ...
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... Original in thought , fertile in expedient , active in mind and body , there appears to have been no bound set to his pursuits . Each of the arts which adorn human life , and the sciences which give power to man , engaged his attention ...
... Original in thought , fertile in expedient , active in mind and body , there appears to have been no bound set to his pursuits . Each of the arts which adorn human life , and the sciences which give power to man , engaged his attention ...
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... original and valuable quality , his pictures bear the impress of the most skilful and earnest investigation into the works of nature , and the preceding productions of art ; pursued with almost inconceivable industry and ingenuity ...
... original and valuable quality , his pictures bear the impress of the most skilful and earnest investigation into the works of nature , and the preceding productions of art ; pursued with almost inconceivable industry and ingenuity ...
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action admiration adopted adorn agreeable application arrangement art of painting artist attention beauty breadth character Chiaro-oscuro church Cimabue colour combinations composition contrasts convey Coreggio cultivation degree delight direct display Domenichino draperies effect elevated employed endeavour engaged exalted excellence excite execution exhibited expression feeling Florentine Florentine school Fra Bartolomeo fulness genius Giorgione Giotto grace grandeur gratify Greeks Heliodorus honour hues imagination imitation imitative power imperfect important impress influence ingenious invention Italy knowledge labours Last Judgment LECTURE light and dark light and shade Masaccio masters means ment Michel Angelo mind mode nature object observer obtained ornamental painter peculiar perfect pleasure portion practice principles produce propriety purposes qualities racter Raffaelle refined Rembrandt rendered Rubens scenes selection sense sentiment Sir Joshua Reynolds style taste Tintoretto tion Titian tone truth ture union variety Vatican Venetian Venetian school whilst wrought
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Page 198 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 195 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 196 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 312 - The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.
Page i - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 251 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 447 - Thus if .a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has no other means than by approaching it to a general idea. He leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities in the face, and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent. which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us.
Page 197 - So spake the grisly terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On...
Page 370 - The common error that his colours all fail, ought by this time to be entirely effaced. It is too true that this is the case with the colouring of many pictures painted by him during a short period of his life; he thought that he had discovered a mode of rendering colouring more vivid, and employed it without duly considering the chemical qualities of his materials. But he was soon made acquainted with the mistake he had committed, reassumed his durable system with increased beauty and vigour, and...
Page 343 - Consonance, or harmony of hue, consists in those colours being brought together, which, though they may not be placed exactly in the regular order seen in the rainbow or in the chromatic scale, yet act in accordance with each other upon the eye, and produce no uneasy sensations within it, but rather afford it pleasure.