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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... studies , as well as we can , with the eye of our imagination , to discover him seated , like other students , on a small , square , sharp - edged box , the slave and worshipper of some Apollo or Antinous . Before this , in adoration ...
... studies , as well as we can , with the eye of our imagination , to discover him seated , like other students , on a small , square , sharp - edged box , the slave and worshipper of some Apollo or Antinous . Before this , in adoration ...
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... studies of trees ( par- ticularly the ash and willow ) were lauded as most light , firm , and spirited . His works were unequal . because he was loaded with commissions and employed hosts of subordinates . While Wilson was all but ...
... studies of trees ( par- ticularly the ash and willow ) were lauded as most light , firm , and spirited . His works were unequal . because he was loaded with commissions and employed hosts of subordinates . While Wilson was all but ...
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... studies . Both lads , with the plastic minds of their age , must have derived deep impressions from these sketching ... studies by Dayes , Girtin's master . Here too he saw Wilson's and Gainsborough's studies , and learnt from the first ...
... studies . Both lads , with the plastic minds of their age , must have derived deep impressions from these sketching ... studies by Dayes , Girtin's master . Here too he saw Wilson's and Gainsborough's studies , and learnt from the first ...
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... studies closely . There are landscapes and pen sketches , Swiss views and Italian views , particularly on the Neapolitan coast : the Bay of Salerno and the Tomb of Virgil are there , for the lads to learn aërial perspective and its ...
... studies closely . There are landscapes and pen sketches , Swiss views and Italian views , particularly on the Neapolitan coast : the Bay of Salerno and the Tomb of Virgil are there , for the lads to learn aërial perspective and its ...
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... studies of shipping and costume , and one special view in the neighbourhood of Schaffhausen . For Girtin there were Canaletti drawings to copy ; and for both , pen - washed , bistre , and Indian - ink drawings by Rembrandt , Ostade ...
... studies of shipping and costume , and one special view in the neighbourhood of Schaffhausen . For Girtin there were Canaletti drawings to copy ; and for both , pen - washed , bistre , and Indian - ink drawings by Rembrandt , Ostade ...
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The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A.: Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by ... Walter Thornbury Visualização integral - 1877 |
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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.