Lectures on ArtBickers and Son, 1880 - 429 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable Æschylus alluded allusions altogether ancient ancient Greece antique appears artist beauty become Behnes believe belonging called carried Chantrey character Colour convey Croesus difficult discourse drapery effect Egyptian endeavour examples excellence existing expression fact fancy feeling figure Flaxman genius give gold Gothic Art hand head Herodotus HISTORY OF SCULPTURE human Ideal ideal Art ideas Iliad imagination imitation impression instance Jupiter kind labour lecture less look Lord Derby manner marble master Mausolus means ment Michael Angelo mind modern Nature never object opinion painter Painting Patroclus peculiarities perhaps Phidias Plato Pliny portrait portraiture Praxiteles principles purpose question racter Realism reason recollect represented Reynolds Royal Academy scarcely Sculpture seems serve Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds speak statue student style Taste tell things thought tion true truth whilst whole words writings
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 11 - O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed, and days well spent...
Seite 416 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Seite 105 - TO THE MOON ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,— And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy...
Seite 413 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Seite 327 - Thy griefs I dread: I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led!
Seite 104 - Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that cheers : The common growth of mother earth Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.
Seite 261 - Thus it is from reiterated experience, and a close comparison of the objects in nature, that an artist becomes possessed of the idea of that central form, if I may so express it, from which every deviation is deformity.
Seite 246 - For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced them. Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of genius ; they are fetters only to men of no genius ; as that...
Seite 429 - Israel : that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones...
Seite 253 - Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory : nothing can come of nothing : he who has laid up no materials, can produce no combinations.