An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern, Թողարկում 2R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - 200 էջ |
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... clear obfcure , the figures and objects will be flat or projecting , or , in other words , more or lefs like na- ture . If we confider these points with- out prejudice , it will , I think , appear , that of all the arts , Painting is ...
... clear obfcure , the figures and objects will be flat or projecting , or , in other words , more or lefs like na- ture . If we confider these points with- out prejudice , it will , I think , appear , that of all the arts , Painting is ...
Էջ xiv
... clear and obfcure colours . I have borrowed the word NUD from the French ; SBozzo from the Italian ; and and have tranflated the CHIAROSCURO of the latter into the xiv PREFACE .
... clear and obfcure colours . I have borrowed the word NUD from the French ; SBozzo from the Italian ; and and have tranflated the CHIAROSCURO of the latter into the xiv PREFACE .
Էջ xv
... clear obfcure . These are little licences , unavoidable , in treating of an art , which has not as yet been thoroughly naturalized ; and I even wish , that they may not be overlooked , in the number of lefs excufable defects . CON ...
... clear obfcure . These are little licences , unavoidable , in treating of an art , which has not as yet been thoroughly naturalized ; and I even wish , that they may not be overlooked , in the number of lefs excufable defects . CON ...
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... clear obfcure , and compofition . Concerning each of of thefe , I fhall endeavour to point out its 6 General Plan of the Work . DIAL . Í .
... clear obfcure , and compofition . Concerning each of of thefe , I fhall endeavour to point out its 6 General Plan of the Work . DIAL . Í .
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... clear obfcure : A wav- ing and varied Contour was neceffary to this end ; Hence , he gave wholly into the ferpentine , ftudioufly avoiding right lines , and acute angles , as too fimple in their effects . [ r ] Thus the habit , and even ...
... clear obfcure : A wav- ing and varied Contour was neceffary to this end ; Hence , he gave wholly into the ferpentine , ftudioufly avoiding right lines , and acute angles , as too fimple in their effects . [ r ] Thus the habit , and even ...
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An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits ..., Թողարկում 2 Daniel Webb Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1761 |
An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits ..., Թողարկում 2 Daniel Webb Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1761 |
An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most ... Daniel Webb Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1761 |
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Æneid ancients angel antiquity Apelles artiſts beauty beſt cafe character Clear obfcure colours compariſon compofition Correggio courſe defcribed defcription defign difpofition diftinction diftinguiſh effect elegant Euphranor excellent expreffed expreffion fame fays fecond fect feem fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhould fimple firft firſt fome fpirit fplendor fpring ftatues ftill ftudy ftyle fubject fublime fuch fufficient fuperior fuppofe genius give grace greateſt Greek Hence himſelf ideas imagination imitation itſelf jects juft juſt laft Laocoon lefs leſs lights and fhades mafter meaſure mechanick Medea merit moderns moft moſt muft muſt nature obferve objects occafion OVID paffions painters painting Parrhafius pencil perfect perfon Phidias Philoftratus picture pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Plin Pliny Plutarch poet praiſe Praxiteles racter Raphael reaſon reft reprefent ſcience ſeems ſeveral taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Timanthes Timomachus tion Titian uſe Venus xxxv Zeuxis γαρ δε εις εν και μεν
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Էջ 15 - The following obfervation by Tully, at the fame time that it illuftrates, receives authority from this faft. — " All * men, by a kind of tacit feeling, without art or fcience, diftinguifh, in both cafes, what is right from what is wrong ; and, as they evidently do fo in painting and fculpture, fo, &c. &c.
Էջ 13 - ... of time, aft fo coldly upon us : Nay, fome men there are, and thofe too very capable of judging in other matters, who never rife to this change ; but continue, to the laft, under the influence of the fame boyifh and wanton imagination, B.
Էջ 13 - ... mark its advances ; the contrary of which is almoft ever the cafe ; fo that we are often furprifed at this alteration in ourfelves, and wonder, that the ideas and objects which...
Էջ 42 - nee stetit ante oculos ejus Minerva: dignus tamen ilia arte animus et concepit deos, et exhibuit."f And this leads me to remark what must have been likewise another and a very powerful source of the advancement of the arts of design among the Greeks. The Grecian mythology furnished a most ample source for the exercise of the genius of the painter and sculptor. The distinct and characteristic...
Էջ 11 - In this, the imagination, on its firft fetting out, ever prefers extravagance to juftnefs, or falfe beauties to true ; it kindles at the flafhes of Claudian ; and flutters at the points of Statius ; this is its childhood. As it grows in vigour, it refines in feeling ; till, fuperior to its firft attra&ions, it refts on the tender pathetick of Virgil ; or the manly fpirit of Lucretius.
Էջ 11 - ... reafoning ; and feels in an inftant that truth , which the other developes by degrees. B. You have been defcribing, what Tully calls a learned, and we, I think, may term a chafte eye. But, do you not, in this procefs, make the growth of tafte [h] Confnetudo oculoram.
Էջ 16 - ... favourite manner. They feldom, like gentlemen and fcholars, rife to an unprejudiced and liberal contemplation of true beauty. The difficulties they find in the practice of their art, tie them down to the mechanic ; at the fame time that...
Էջ 12 - Guido : this c lafts not long ; it grows chafte in its purfuit ; and flighting * thofe falfe beauties, dwells on the native and mellow tints *• of Titian ; on the unforced attitudes, and elegant fimpli
Էջ 179 - The wit of man could not devise means more certain of the end proposed ; such a chain of circumstances is equal to a narration , and I cannot but think, that the whole would have been an example of invention and conduct, even in the happiest age of antiquity.
Էջ 29 - They could not better (how the fenfe they had of its power than in the care they took of its direction. They knew the dominion it had over our paffions, and hence were careful to lodge it in the fafeft hands.