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... Titian ; the character , to be sure , is different : the subtle evanescent expression of satire round the lips , the shrewd significance in the eye , the earnest contemplative attitude , -all convey the strongest im- pression of the man ...
... Titian ; the character , to be sure , is different : the subtle evanescent expression of satire round the lips , the shrewd significance in the eye , the earnest contemplative attitude , -all convey the strongest im- pression of the man ...
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... Titian , Vandyke , and Rembrandt , the best kind of wealth ; and that instead of saving money , he laid it out faster than he got it , in purchasing the finest examples of art that could be procured . The collection of pictures , prints ...
... Titian , Vandyke , and Rembrandt , the best kind of wealth ; and that instead of saving money , he laid it out faster than he got it , in purchasing the finest examples of art that could be procured . The collection of pictures , prints ...
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... Titian , and an undoubted Correggio were put up and knocked down , and carried off , with the enthusiastic eagerness when a picture of Reynolds's was offered . On the principle of seeking in each master his cha- racteristic excellence ...
... Titian , and an undoubted Correggio were put up and knocked down , and carried off , with the enthusiastic eagerness when a picture of Reynolds's was offered . On the principle of seeking in each master his cha- racteristic excellence ...
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... Titian he conceived to be the great master - spirit in portraiture ; and no enthusiast in usury ever sought more incessantly for the secret of the philosopher's stone than did Reynolds to possess himself of the whole theory and practice ...
... Titian he conceived to be the great master - spirit in portraiture ; and no enthusiast in usury ever sought more incessantly for the secret of the philosopher's stone than did Reynolds to possess himself of the whole theory and practice ...
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... Titian and Paul Veronese . Although Reynolds made some studies from nature , yet it is not known that he finished more than three pieces , one of which was a view from his own house , on Richmond Hill . This picture , which may be ...
... Titian and Paul Veronese . Although Reynolds made some studies from nature , yet it is not known that he finished more than three pieces , one of which was a view from his own house , on Richmond Hill . This picture , which may be ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Academicians admiration Allan Cunningham appears artist beauty British character colour copy Covent Garden Cunningham death drawing Duke Earl early Elgin marbles engraved exclaimed exhibited expression father feeling figure finished Fuseli Fuseli's Gainsborough Gallery Garden Garrick genius guineas hand Harlot's Progress Haydon head Hogarth painted Hogarth's House honour Hudibras J. M. W. TURNER John lady landscape Lawrence's Leslie letter lived London look Lord manner master Michael Angelo mind Miss morning nature never Nichols Northcote painter pencil person picture placed plate Plympton poet portrait possession present Prince purchased Rake's Progress remarkable replied Reynolds's Rome Royal Academy says scene sent Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Thomas Lawrence Sir Thomas's sitters sitting sketch sold soon style talents taste Thornhill thought tion Titian told took Turner Walpole Wilkes Wilkie William William Hogarth young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 215 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Página 116 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet *, and only took snuff.
Página 314 - ... night, which gathers cold and low, advancing like the shadow of death upon the guilty ' ship as it labours amidst the lightning of the sea, its thin masts written upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hue which signs the sky with horror, and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight, — and cast far along the desolate heave of the sepulchral waves, incarnadines the multitudinous sea.
Página 136 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Página 339 - Rising or falling, still advance his praise. His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud; and, wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 310 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring.
Página 339 - But yonder comes the powerful king of day. Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
Página 172 - If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, among the very first of that rising name.
Página 155 - ... fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere.
Página 160 - He went down a few steps, and returned again. ' What use is your book to me if I don't understand it 1 and your lute, you may take it again if you won't teach me to play on it. Come home with me, and give me the first lesson.' 'I will come to-morrow.