| Edward Howard Griggs - 1908 - 96 Seiten
...soul. Thus how art may degenerate and become dangerous. The problem of Faust's vision in the mirror. "The eye, which is called the window of the soul,...abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second inasmuch as it acquires its importance from the fact that it hears the things... | |
| Edward Howard Griggs - 1913 - 364 Seiten
...spirit; while graver and sonorous, but still more vague and dim, is the deep undertone of the race. "The eye, which is called the window of the soul,...abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second inasmuch as it acquires its importance from the fact that it hears the things... | |
| Edward Howard Griggs - 1913 - 358 Seiten
...spirit; while graver and sonorous, but still more vague and dim, is the deep undertone of the race. "The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding may mast fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second inasmuch... | |
| Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - 302 Seiten
...understand as a whole even as he perceives it moment by moment in discrete parts. Leonardo writes, "The eye, which is called the window of the soul,...abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature" (p. 852). The model for the eye's (the soul's) gradual expansion of power is given in The Divine Comedy,... | |
| Renaissance Society of America - 1993 - 196 Seiten
...brush." How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains: The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is...abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, inasmuch as it acquires its importance from the fact that it hears the things... | |
| Peter Whitfield - 1999 - 286 Seiten
...of nature's works, and earnestly contrive to acquire an understanding of all these forms'; 'the eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully appreciate the infinite works of nature'; 'painting compels the mind of the painter... | |
| Alain Besançon - 2000 - 431 Seiten
...offspring of nature. But in order to speak more correctly we may call it the grandchild of nature; for all visible things derive their existence from nature, and from these same things is born painting. So therefore we may justly speak of it as the grandchild of nature and as related to God himself."8... | |
| Anton Gill - 2004 - 364 Seiten
...211 How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains: The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is...abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, inasmuch as it acquires its importance from the fact that it hears the things... | |
| Jack J. Pasternak - 2005 - 656 Seiten
...and opens the way to a knowledge of everything, as experience teaches. ROGER BACON (1214?—1294?) The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is...abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature. LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452—1510) THE ABILITY TO SEE, for the most part, transcends all of our other... | |
| Leonardo (da Vinci) - 2006 - 232 Seiten
...have given birth to painting. Hence we may justly call it the grandchild of nature and related to God. The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite... | |
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