Sir Joshua ReynoldsScribner, 1894 - 415 Seiten |
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... Practice - Notes to Mason's Translation of Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting - Journey to Flanders and Holland -Analysis of the Fifteen Discourses delivered at the Royal Academy , 383 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PICTURES BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS .
... Practice - Notes to Mason's Translation of Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting - Journey to Flanders and Holland -Analysis of the Fifteen Discourses delivered at the Royal Academy , 383 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PICTURES BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS .
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... practice was so little in agreement . We have Malone's authority for the statement that " the perusal of the Treatise so de- lighted and inflamed his mind that Raffaele appeared to him superior to the most illustrious names of ancient ...
... practice was so little in agreement . We have Malone's authority for the statement that " the perusal of the Treatise so de- lighted and inflamed his mind that Raffaele appeared to him superior to the most illustrious names of ancient ...
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... the Roman note - books , headed " Copies of Pictures I made in Rome , " gives a selection of works of various styles and schools , not , however , so distinctively illustrating either the painter's subsequent practice or his theory ,
... the Roman note - books , headed " Copies of Pictures I made in Rome , " gives a selection of works of various styles and schools , not , however , so distinctively illustrating either the painter's subsequent practice or his theory ,
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Sir Claude Phillips. illustrating either the painter's subsequent practice or his theory , that it need be here quoted in full . More characteristic is the statement , " I was let into the Cappella Sistina in the morning , and remained ...
Sir Claude Phillips. illustrating either the painter's subsequent practice or his theory , that it need be here quoted in full . More characteristic is the statement , " I was let into the Cappella Sistina in the morning , and remained ...
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... was universally allowed he executed such subjects with much humour and spirit , he yet held it absolutely necessary to abandon the practice , since it must corrupt his taste as a portrait - painter , whose duty it becomes to.
... was universally allowed he executed such subjects with much humour and spirit , he yet held it absolutely necessary to abandon the practice , since it must corrupt his taste as a portrait - painter , whose duty it becomes to.
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Seite 194 - Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please.
Seite 109 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
Seite 194 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they were not his own by finessing and trick; He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
Seite 134 - But suppose now, Sir, that one of your intimate friends were apprehended for an offence for which he might be hanged." JOHNSON. "I should do what I could to bail him, and give him any other assistance; but if he were once fairly hanged, I should not suffer.
Seite 190 - If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse.
Seite 373 - I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Seite 40 - Whatever merit they have, must be imputed, in a great measure, to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly.
Seite 395 - I would chiefly recommend that an implicit obedience to the Rules of Art, as established by the practice of the great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them as perfect and infallible guides ; as subjects for their imitation, not their criticism.
Seite 401 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.
Seite 380 - In full affluence of foreign and domestic fame, admired by the expert in art, and by the learned in science, courted by the great, caressed by sovereign powers, and celebrated by distinguished poets, his native humility...