Ancient and modern art, historical and critical, by G.Cleghorn.2 vols, Band 1 |
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Ancient and Modern Art, Historical and Critical, by G. Cleghorn. 2 Vols George Cleghorn (writer on Art ) Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
Ancient and Modern Art, Historical and Critical, by G.Cleghorn. Vols George Cleghorn (writer on Art ) Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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admiration adorned ancient antique arch archi architects artists Athens beauty bronze buildings Byzantine Canova Carlo Fea castle cathedral celebrated century character church Cicognara classical colossal columns composition construction Corinthian Corinthian order corrupt cupola decorated Doric edifices Egypt Egyptian Elgin marbles English equestrian statue erected Etruscan examples excellence executed exhibit feet figures galleries garden genius Gothic grace grandeur Grecian Grecian architecture Greece Greek houses ideal imitation Inigo Jones Italian architecture Italy Jupiter likewise Lombard Lysippus magnificent marble ment Michel Angelo models modern monuments nature numerous object octostyle original ornaments painting palace Parthenon pediments perfection period Phidias portico Praxiteles principle produced proportion Quatremère de Quincy Raffael reign relievi remains remarks restoration Roman and Italian Roman architecture Rome Scotland sculpture sepulchral Sir Christopher Wren specimens splendid St Peter's statuary stone structures style supposed taste tecture temple thermæ tion towers ture vases villa Vitruvius walls Winkelmann
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 339 - Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but ore within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Seite 37 - Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord.
Seite 37 - And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary.
Seite 37 - Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Seite 101 - Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling, were employed by the founder: his liberal taste invited the artists of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian marble. The hall of audience was...
Seite 89 - We were overshadowed by lofty trees, with straight, smooth trunks, like stately columns ; and as the glancing rays of the sun shone through the transparent leaves, tinted with the manycolored hues of autumn, I was reminded of the effect of sunshine among the stained windows and clustering columns of a Gothic cathedral.
Seite 199 - Brv» jugis, beauty originates in the design, and is never superinduced by ornament. Their elevations enchant you, not by the length and altitude, nor by the materials and sculpture, but by the consummate felicity of their proportions, by the harmonious distribution of solid and void, by that happy something between flat and prominent, which charms both in front and profile; by that maestria which calls in columns, not to encumber but to support, and reproduces ancient beauty in combinations unknown...
Seite 8 - ... forms ; and which by a long habit of observing what any set of objects of the same kind have in common, has acquired the power of discerning what each wants in particular.
Seite 8 - This idea of the perfect state of Nature, which the Artist calls the Ideal beauty, is the great leading principle by which works of genius are conducted.
Seite 8 - All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms...