The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 2Harper & brothers, 1859 |
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... productions solve the mystery . Reynolds acquired the profitable secret , and kept it to himself and many years afterward West imagined that he had obtained it too . It is doubted by some whether either ever mastered it completely . It ...
... productions solve the mystery . Reynolds acquired the profitable secret , and kept it to himself and many years afterward West imagined that he had obtained it too . It is doubted by some whether either ever mastered it completely . It ...
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... . As his life was long and laborious , his productions are very numerous . He painted and sketched in oil upwards of four hundred pictures , mostly of an historical and religious nature , and he left more than WEST . 51.
... . As his life was long and laborious , his productions are very numerous . He painted and sketched in oil upwards of four hundred pictures , mostly of an historical and religious nature , and he left more than WEST . 51.
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... productions , and painted Venus rising out of the sea . This picture is allowed , by friends and foes , to be an exquisite one : but he painted it in vain ; it excited no lively sympathy - no fresh emotion ; the subject had been ...
... productions , and painted Venus rising out of the sea . This picture is allowed , by friends and foes , to be an exquisite one : but he painted it in vain ; it excited no lively sympathy - no fresh emotion ; the subject had been ...
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... productions , the time and the people must be expressed . The soldiers of George II . might as well have been represented fighting those of Louis XV . on elephant's backs , as in the nakedness of the Lapithæ . Barry , who had shortly ...
... productions , the time and the people must be expressed . The soldiers of George II . might as well have been represented fighting those of Louis XV . on elephant's backs , as in the nakedness of the Lapithæ . Barry , who had shortly ...
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... production of the Royal Academy , the offspring of a mind full of knowledge , and animated by more than common enthusiasm , it may be proper to transcribe some specimens . " It is a misfortune , " says Barry , never entirely to be ...
... production of the Royal Academy , the offspring of a mind full of knowledge , and animated by more than common enthusiasm , it may be proper to transcribe some specimens . " It is a misfortune , " says Barry , never entirely to be ...
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admired Amelia Opie appeared artist Barry Barry's beauty Benjamin West Bird Blake brethren Burke called character colours companion compositions copy death Domenichino drawing easel eminent engravings excellence exclaimed exhibited eyes fame fancy father feeling Felpham finished formed fortune friends Fuseli gallery genius GEORGE MORLAND grace grave guineas hand happy Hassell Henry Fuseli historical honour imagination imbodied invention kind King labour lived London looked Lord Lord Grosvenor Majesty master merit Michael Angelo Milton mind Morland nation nature never Opie original painter painting pencil person picture Pindar poet poetic poetry portrait praise Prince Hoare productions Quaker racter Raphael Rembrandt Reynolds Rome Royal Academy says scene seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sistine Chapel sketches skill spirit talents taste temper thing thought tion Titian tures visions West wife wild wish Wolcot young
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Сторінка 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Сторінка 125 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Сторінка 131 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
Сторінка 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Сторінка 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Сторінка 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Сторінка 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Сторінка 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Сторінка 144 - How do we distinguish the oak from the beech, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements?
Сторінка 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...