 | Joan H. Pittock - 1973 - 252 Seiten
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 | 1976 - 52 Seiten
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 | Kai Kin Yung - 1984 - 152 Seiten
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 | William Edinger - 1997 - 114 Seiten
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 | Bruce Haley - 2003 - 322 Seiten
...them, Dr. Johnson had insisted to Reynolds, for "diffusing friendship . . . renewing tenderness . . . quickening the affections of the absent and continuing the presence of the dead." 12 These remarks point up a central paradox about the painted likeness: it depicts a living figure,... | |
 | Martin Myrone - 2005 - 408 Seiten
...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life; what is greatest is...the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
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Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life, what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to... 
