The Fine ArtsJ. Murray, 1891 - 321 Seiten |
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actual adorned aerial perspective æsthetic Alfred Stevens ancient appear apprentices arch architect artistic expression arts of form beauty bronze building Buonamico Buffalmacco carved CHAP character classical composition construction conventions Correggio decorative delineation Dolmen drapery Egyptian element essential feeling festal festival fifteenth century figures Florence Florentine forms of art fresco frescoist frieze Gothic graphic art Greek hand harmony Hellas Hellenic Herbert Spencer human idea ideal imitation impasto impression intonaco Italian kind light light-and-shade lines Lond marble mass material matter mediæval metopes mimic dance modern monumental moulded nature objects outlines pageants painter painting Parthenon personages perspective Pheidias picture pigment plaster play practice production recognised relation relief Rembrandt rendering representation represented round sacred Saltatione scenes sculpture seen shape shrine significant Sir Charles Eastlake solid forms stone structure style surface temple texture theme thing tints tion tone and colour touch treatment triglyphs Vasari 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 - 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 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 - England has been largely due to the union of scientific with popular treatment, and 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 with the same kind of teaching as is given in...
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 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 51 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did...
Seite 301 - I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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 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.