Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions for the Connoisseur, and an Essay on Grace in Works of ArtTranslator, and sold, 1765 - 287 էջ |
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... Roman ftatue , compared to a Greek one , will generally appear like Virgil's Diana amidst her Oreads , in com- parison of the Nauficaa of Homer , whom he imitated . Laocoon was the ftandard of the Roman artists , as well as ours ; and ...
... Roman ftatue , compared to a Greek one , will generally appear like Virgil's Diana amidst her Oreads , in com- parison of the Nauficaa of Homer , whom he imitated . Laocoon was the ftandard of the Roman artists , as well as ours ; and ...
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... Romans form- ed their Empreffes on their coins . Livia and Agrippina have the profile of Artemifia and Cleopatra . We obferve , nevertheless , that the Greek artifts in general , submitted to the law pre- fcribed by the Thebans : " To ...
... Romans form- ed their Empreffes on their coins . Livia and Agrippina have the profile of Artemifia and Cleopatra . We obferve , nevertheless , that the Greek artifts in general , submitted to the law pre- fcribed by the Thebans : " To ...
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... Roman bishop , in order to divert the Hun from his defign of affailing Rome , appears not with the air of a Rhetor , but as a venerable man , whose very presence uproar into peace ; like him drawn foftens by Virgil : Tum pietate gravem ...
... Roman bishop , in order to divert the Hun from his defign of affailing Rome , appears not with the air of a Rhetor , but as a venerable man , whose very presence uproar into peace ; like him drawn foftens by Virgil : Tum pietate gravem ...
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... performances . He made for Lucullus a figure of clay representing Happiness , and received 60,000 fefterces : 24 and and Octavius , a Roman Knight , paid him a 40 Reflexions on the Imitation of the V. WORKMANSHIP in SCULPTURE. ...
... performances . He made for Lucullus a figure of clay representing Happiness , and received 60,000 fefterces : 24 and and Octavius , a Roman Knight , paid him a 40 Reflexions on the Imitation of the V. WORKMANSHIP in SCULPTURE. ...
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... Roman Knight , paid him a talent for the model only of a large difh , in plaifter , which he defigned to have finished in gold . Of all materials , clay might be allowed to be the fittest for fhaping figures , could it preferve its ...
... Roman Knight , paid him a talent for the model only of a large difh , in plaifter , which he defigned to have finished in gold . Of all materials , clay might be allowed to be the fittest for fhaping figures , could it preferve its ...
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againſt Alcibiades allegory alſo ancients antiquity artiſts Athenian bas-relief Bernini beſt characteriſtic Cicero coins compofition Conf confequently connoiffeurs Contour Corregio Daniel Gran defign Diofcorides Diomedes diſcovered drapery Drefden eaſy Egyptian eſpecially exerciſes expreffed expreffion eyes facred faid fame faſhion fays feem fenfes fhall fhew fhould fignify figures fingle firft firſt fome fomething foul ftatues ftill fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fymbol gems Grace Greek hand himſelf Homer idea imitation infcription inftance inftruction itſelf Laocoon leaſt likewife mafter marble meaſure modern moft moſt moſt beautiful Mummy muſt myſelf nature nevertheleſs obfervations paffions painter painting Parrhafius perhaps Phidias pleaſe pleaſure Plin Plutarch poffibility Praxiteles prefented preferved pretended racter raiſe Raphael reaſon repreſented reſemblance Rome royal cabinet ſeems ſhall ſome ſtatue ſtill Stofch Strabo Stratonice taſte temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe treatiſe uſe vafe Venus Vide Vitruvius whofe whoſe wiſh youth Zeus Zeuxis
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Էջ 28 - Pangs piercing every muscle, every labouring nerve; pangs which we almost feel ourselves, while we consider — not the face, nor the most expressive parts — only the belly contracted by excruciating pains: these however, I say, exert not themselves with violence, either in the face or gesture. He pierces not heaven, like the Laocoon of Virgil; his mouth is rather opened to discharge an anxious overloaded groan, as Sadolet says; the struggling body and the supporting mind exert themselves with...
Էջ 12 - Venus ; or that others formed the graces from Lais ; it is to be underftood that they did fo, without neglecting thefe great laws of the art. Senfual beauty furnifhed the painter with all that nature could give ; ideal beauty with the awful and fublime ; from that he took the Humane, from this the Divine. c Vide Stofch Pierres gray.
Էջ 14 - Iparing fagacity, and, as relative to a completer and more perfect Nature, offered but as hints, nay, often perceived only by the learned. The probability ftill increafes, that the bodies of the Greeks, as well as the works of their artifts, were framed with more unity of fyftem, a nobler harmony of parts, and a completenefs of the whole, above our lean tenfions and hollow wrinkles. Probability, 'tis true, is all we can pretend to : but it...
Էջ 2 - The most beautiful body of ours would perhaps be as much inferior to the most beautiful Greek one, as Iphicles was to his brother Hercules. The forms of the Greeks, prepared to beauty, by the influence of the mildest and purest sky, became perfectly elegant by their early exercises.
Էջ 2 - It is not only nature which the votaries of the Greeks find in their works, but still more, something superior to nature; ideal beauties, brain-born images, as Proclus says.
Էջ 7 - Autolycus, Lysis; Phidias for the improvement of his art by their beauty. Here he studied the elasticity of the muscles, the ever varying motions of the frame, the outlines of fair forms, or the contour left by the young wrestler on the sand. Here beautiful nakedness appeared with such a liveliness of expression, such truth and variety of situations, such a noble air of the body...
Էջ 21 - Michael j4ngelot perhaps, may be faid to have attained the antique ; but only in ftrong mufcular figures, heroic frames ; not in thofe of tender youth ; nor in female bodies, which, under his bold hand, grew Amazons. The Greek artift, on the contrary, adjufted his Contour, in every figure, to the breadth of a fingle hair, even in the niceft and moft tirefome performances, as gems. Confider the Diomedes and Perfeus of Diofcorides h, Hercules and Jole by Teucer \ and admire the inimitable Greeks.
Էջ 22 - This Contour reigns in Greek figures, even when covered with drapery, as the chief aim of the artist: the beautiful frame pierces the marble like a transparent Coan cloth.' All neoclassical sculptors must have paid deep attention to such passages, for contour was henceforth to become a prime factor in design. In 1754 Winckelmann entered the Roman Church and in the next years left Dresden...
Էջ 17 - Greek rule of beauty, the modern artift goes on the fureft way to the imitation of Nature, The ideas of unity and perfection, which he acquired in meditating on antiquity, will help him to combine, and to ennoble the more fcattered and weaker beauties of our Nature.
Էջ 31 - Contraft is the darling of their ideas ; in it they fancy every perfection. They fill their performances with cometlike excentric fouls, defpifing every thing but an Ajax or a Capaneus. Arts have their infancy as well as men > they begin, as well as the artift, with froth and bombaft : in fuch bufkins the mufe of...