An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern, Nummer 2R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - 200 pagina's |
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Pagina 15 - The following obfervation by Tully, at the fame time that it illuftrates, receives authority from this faft. — " All * men, by a kind of tacit feeling, without art or fcience, diftinguifh, in both cafes, what is right from what is wrong ; and, as they evidently do fo in painting and fculpture, fo, &c. &c.
Pagina 13 - ... of time, aft fo coldly upon us : Nay, fome men there are, and thofe too very capable of judging in other matters, who never rife to this change ; but continue, to the laft, under the influence of the fame boyifh and wanton imagination, B.
Pagina 13 - ... mark its advances ; the contrary of which is almoft ever the cafe ; fo that we are often furprifed at this alteration in ourfelves, and wonder, that the ideas and objects which...
Pagina 42 - nee stetit ante oculos ejus Minerva: dignus tamen ilia arte animus et concepit deos, et exhibuit."f And this leads me to remark what must have been likewise another and a very powerful source of the advancement of the arts of design among the Greeks. The Grecian mythology furnished a most ample source for the exercise of the genius of the painter and sculptor. The distinct and characteristic...
Pagina 11 - In this, the imagination, on its firft fetting out, ever prefers extravagance to juftnefs, or falfe beauties to true ; it kindles at the flafhes of Claudian ; and flutters at the points of Statius ; this is its childhood. As it grows in vigour, it refines in feeling ; till, fuperior to its firft attra&ions, it refts on the tender pathetick of Virgil ; or the manly fpirit of Lucretius.
Pagina 11 - ... reafoning ; and feels in an inftant that truth , which the other developes by degrees. B. You have been defcribing, what Tully calls a learned, and we, I think, may term a chafte eye. But, do you not, in this procefs, make the growth of tafte [h] Confnetudo oculoram.
Pagina 16 - ... favourite manner. They feldom, like gentlemen and fcholars, rife to an unprejudiced and liberal contemplation of true beauty. The difficulties they find in the practice of their art, tie them down to the mechanic ; at the fame time that...
Pagina 12 - Guido : this c lafts not long ; it grows chafte in its purfuit ; and flighting * thofe falfe beauties, dwells on the native and mellow tints *• of Titian ; on the unforced attitudes, and elegant fimpli
Pagina 179 - The wit of man could not devise means more certain of the end proposed ; such a chain of circumstances is equal to a narration , and I cannot but think, that the whole would have been an example of invention and conduct, even in the happiest age of antiquity.
Pagina 29 - They could not better (how the fenfe they had of its power than in the care they took of its direction. They knew the dominion it had over our paffions, and hence were careful to lodge it in the fafeft hands.