Modern Painters ...J. Wiley & sons, 1878 |
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... Venice glass as to be shocked by all treachery . I have to prove to them that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in their philosophy , and that the truth of nature is a part of the truth of God ; to him who ...
... Venice glass as to be shocked by all treachery . I have to prove to them that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in their philosophy , and that the truth of nature is a part of the truth of God ; to him who ...
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... Venice , the chain of the Tyrolese Alps is seen lifted in spectral power above the tufted plain of Treviso ; every dawn that reddens the tow- ers of Murano lights also a line of pyramidal fires along that colossal ridge ; but there is ...
... Venice , the chain of the Tyrolese Alps is seen lifted in spectral power above the tufted plain of Treviso ; every dawn that reddens the tow- ers of Murano lights also a line of pyramidal fires along that colossal ridge ; but there is ...
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... Venice , has given us the oak , the fig , the beautiful " Erba della Madonna " on the wall , precisely such a bunch of it as may be seen growing at this day on the marble steps of that very church ; ivy and other creepers , and a ...
... Venice , has given us the oak , the fig , the beautiful " Erba della Madonna " on the wall , precisely such a bunch of it as may be seen growing at this day on the marble steps of that very church ; ivy and other creepers , and a ...
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... Venice altogether overpowers and renders value- Landscape of the Bellinis and Giorgione . 8 that Bologna behind fi horizon equal tru are often Joud fo tans , an motives pecially they can that pro ever has through sions att hearted piece ...
... Venice altogether overpowers and renders value- Landscape of the Bellinis and Giorgione . 8 that Bologna behind fi horizon equal tru are often Joud fo tans , an motives pecially they can that pro ever has through sions att hearted piece ...
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... Venice , of Gentile's architecture I shall presently . Giovanni's , though in style less interesting n place less prominent , occurring chiefly as a kind of frame s pictures , connecting them with the architecture of the hes for which ...
... Venice , of Gentile's architecture I shall presently . Giovanni's , though in style less interesting n place less prominent , occurring chiefly as a kind of frame s pictures , connecting them with the architecture of the hes for which ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
aerial aerial perspective Alps appear architecture artist beauty blue boughs Canaletto CHAPTER character chiaroscuro Claude clouds color Copley Fielding curves dark degree delicate distance distinct drawing edge effect engraver especially expression exquisite false farther feeling foliage foreground Gallery give given gray ground Hero and Leander hills ideas imitation impossible impression instance Italy J. M. W. Turner kind knowledge Land's End landscape art landscape painters less Leucippus light and shade lines look mass means mind mist modern mountain nature never Nicholas Poussin objects observed old masters painting particular peculiar perfect picture pleasure Poussin principles pure qualities rain-cloud reflection rendered ripple Rivers of France rocks Salvator seen shadow space specta Stanfield sublime surface thing thought tion Titian tone touch transparent trees TRUTH OF VEGETATION ture Turner vapor Venice waves whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 265 - ... the whole heaven — one scarlet canopy, — is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing-, vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels : and then, when you can look no more for gladness, and when you are bowed down with fear and love of the Maker and Doer of this, tell me who has best delivered this His message unto men ! ' Alps at Daybreak (Itogers's Poems :) Delphi, and various vignettes.
Página 91 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 207 - I stand, the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure ; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to occupy, Or to pass through ; but rather an abyss In which the everlasting stars abide ; And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day.
Página 51 - A sufficient impulse there may be on the organ; but it not reaching the observation of the mind, there follows no perception: and though the motion that uses to produce the idea of sound be made in the ear, yet no sound is heard.
Página 51 - This is certain, that whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind; whatever impressions are made on the outward parts, if they are not taken notice of within ; there is no perception. Fire may burn our bodies with no other effect than it does a billet, unless the motion be continued to the brain, and there the sense of heat or idea of pain be produced in the mind, wherein consists actual perception.
Página 156 - ... opens in a cloud at sunset the motionless masses of dark rock — dark, though flushed with scarlet lichen, casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist and fitful sound, and, over all, — the multitudinous bars of amber and rose, the sacred clouds that have no darkness, and only exist to...
Página 220 - Attained his western bound; but rays of light — • Now suddenly diverging from the orb Retired behind the mountain tops or veiled By the dense air — shot upwards...
Página 50 - I have to prove to them that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in their philosophy, and that the truth of nature is a part of the truth of God ; to him who does not search it out, darkness, as it is to him who does, infinity.
Página 26 - Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection.
Página 14 - If I say that the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas, I have a definition which will include as subjects of comparison every pleasure which art is capable of conveying.