The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A.: Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1862 - 636 páginas |
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... Claude Lorraine's early pastry - cook life entered into the great Claude's archi- tectural backgrounds . The reclining beaux , who , in the interval of pig - tail tying and toupee curling , perhaps found time to trot the barber's son on ...
... Claude Lorraine's early pastry - cook life entered into the great Claude's archi- tectural backgrounds . The reclining beaux , who , in the interval of pig - tail tying and toupee curling , perhaps found time to trot the barber's son on ...
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... Claude Lorraine , his special predecessor and enemy , a full century all but a few years . Nor must I forget that high up in the London firmament shines West , the son of a Philadelphia Quaker , who has got introduced into Court , and ...
... Claude Lorraine , his special predecessor and enemy , a full century all but a few years . Nor must I forget that high up in the London firmament shines West , the son of a Philadelphia Quaker , who has got introduced into Court , and ...
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... Claude , showing the very skeleton and framework of their art ; besides flighty sketches by Kobel , Momperts , Boucher , and hosts of smaller men — all showing what to seek or what to avoid . As Dr. Munro , in after years , bought whole ...
... Claude , showing the very skeleton and framework of their art ; besides flighty sketches by Kobel , Momperts , Boucher , and hosts of smaller men — all showing what to seek or what to avoid . As Dr. Munro , in after years , bought whole ...
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... Claude , Poussin , and Salvator were in the zenith of their reputation ; such were the precepts which , even to the close of the century , it was necessary for a young painter to comply with during the best part of the years he gave to ...
... Claude , Poussin , and Salvator were in the zenith of their reputation ; such were the precepts which , even to the close of the century , it was necessary for a young painter to comply with during the best part of the years he gave to ...
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... . The Duke of Bridgewater had just bought a large Van- dervelde , the " Rising of a Storm , " and the praise of this picture roused Turner , as the cackle about Claude CLASSICAL PICTURES . 263 led him afterwards to begin the.
... . The Duke of Bridgewater had just bought a large Van- dervelde , the " Rising of a Storm , " and the praise of this picture roused Turner , as the cackle about Claude CLASSICAL PICTURES . 263 led him afterwards to begin the.
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Página 318 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility : Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Página 189 - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Página 190 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep...
Página 298 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Página 153 - Yorkshire ; of all his drawings I think those of the Yorkshire series have the most heart in them — the most affectionate, simple, unwearied, serious finishing of truth. There is in them little seeking after effect, but a strong love of place ; little exhibition of the artist's own powers or peculiarities, but intense appreciation of the smallest local minutiae.
Página 190 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor ought of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
Página 159 - But the most impressive scene, which formed the finale of the exhibition, was that representing the region of the fallen angels, with Satan arraying his troops on the banks of the Fiery Lake, and the rising of the Palace of Pandaemonium, as described by the pen of Milton.
Página 335 - Temeraire: so that these four ships formed as compact a tier as if they had been moored together, their heads lying all the same way. The lieutenants of the Victory...
Página 223 - Pray give my remembrances to Jones and Stokes, and tell him I have not seen a bit of coal stratum for months. My love to Mrs. Chantrey, and take the same and good wishes of, Yours most truly, JMW TURNER.