The Meaning of Pictures: Six Lectures Given for Columbia University at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtC. Scribner's Sons, 1903 - 161 Seiten |
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ANTONELLO DA MESSINA appear artist beautiful BENOZZO GOZZOLI brush called camera canvas certainly character charm Christ Claude Monet Corot Correggio decorative quality Delacroix distortion drawing DYCK emotional expression face fact feeling figures form and color Fra Angelico Frans Hals Gallery Gerard Dou Gérôme Giorgione Greek hand horse human idea illustrate imagination individuality insist Italian Jan Steen landscape less light light-and-shade literature look Louvre Madonna and Saints marble Marriage in Cana matter meaning Meissonier Michael Angelo Millet mind modern paint never original painter PALMA VECCHIO Paolo Veronese perhaps person pict picture Plate poetic point of view portraits produced Raphael realistic recognize Rembrandt Renaissance Rubens scene seen sentiment shadow Shakespeare Sower spirit splendor story suggestion symbol tell theme things thought Tintoretto tion Titian to-day trees true Turner Velasquez Venetian Venice wave Whistler words
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Seite 77 - The western wave was all a-flame, The day was well nigh done, Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun ; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun. And straight the Sun was flecked with bars, (Heaven's Mother send us grace!) As if through a dungeon grate he peered With broad and burning face.
Seite 71 - ST. AGNES' Eve! — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold...
Seite 96 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Seite 144 - Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works "arrangements
Seite 63 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Seite 75 - Are bright as on the earliest day. GABRIEL. And swift, and swift beyond conceiving, The splendor of the world goes round, Day's Eden-brightness still relieving The awful Night's intense profound: The ocean-tides in foam are breaking, Against the rocks' deep bases hurled, And both, the spheric race partaking, Eternal, swift, are onward whirled ! MICHAEL.
Seite 97 - So sleep, for ever sleep, O marble Pair ! Or, if ye wake, let it be then, when fair On the carved western...
Seite 75 - The sun-orb sings in emulation Mid brother-spheres his ancient round: His path predestined through creation He ends with step of thunder-sound.
Seite 35 - I remember myself, years ago, sketching with two well-known men, artists who were great friends, great cronies, asking each other all the time, how to do this and how to do that; but absolutely different in the texture of their minds and in the result that they wished to obtain, so far as the pictures and drawings by which they were well known to the public are concerned.
Seite 143 - 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.