The Fine ArtsJ. Murray, 1891 - 321 Seiten |
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actual aerial perspective æsthetic Alfred Stevens ancient appear arch architect architrave arts of form breadth bronze building Buonamico Buffalmacco CHAP character classical columns composition construction contrast conventions Correggio dance decorative delineation Dolmen Doric drapery Egyptian elements essential example façade feeling festal festival fifteenth century figures Florence Florentine forms of art fresco frescoist frieze give Gothic graphic art Greek hand harmony Hellenic Herbert Spencer human idea ideal imitation impasto impression Italian kind light light-and-shade linear perspective lines marble mass material matter medieval metopes modern monumental moulded nature objects pageants painter painting Parthenon perspective Pheidias picture pigment plane plastic play practice produced qualities recognised relation relief Rembrandt rendering representation represented round sacred Saltatione scenes sculpture seen shadow shape shrine significance Sir Charles Eastlake stone structure style surface Temple texture thing tints tion tone and colour touch treatment triglyphs Vasari vault wall whole Zeus
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Seite 297 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens...
Seite 154 - As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of colour.
Seite ii - In their preparation, details will be avoided except when they illustrate the working of general laws and the development of principles ; while the historical evolution of both the literary and scientific subjects, as well as their philosophical significance, will be kept in view.
Seite ii - This movement, however, can only reach those resident in the larger centres of population, while all over the country there are thoughtful persons who desire the same kind of teaching. It is for them also that this Series is designed. Its aim is to supply the general reader with the same kind of teaching as is given in the Lectures, and to reflect the spirit which has characterised the movement, viz. the combination of principles with facts, and of methods with results. The Manuals are also intended...
Seite 157 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
Seite 51 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those...
Seite 8 - Play is equally an artificial exercise of powers which, in default of their natural exercise, become so ready to discharge that they relieve themselves by simulated actions in place of real actions.
Seite ii - Britain has been partly due to the combination of scientific treatment with popularity, and to the union of simplicity with thoroughness. This movement, however, can only reach those resident in the larger centres of population, while all over the country there are thoughtful persons who desire the same kind of teaching. It is for them also that this Series is designed. Its aim is to supply the general reader...
Seite 7 - ... Inferior kinds of animals have in common the trait, that all their forces are expended in fulfilling functions essential to the maintenance of life. They are unceasingly occupied in searching for food, in escaping from enemies, in forming places of shelter, and in making preparations for progeny. But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength are not wholly absorbed in providing for immediate needs.