A Handbook of Pictorial Art

Voorkant
Clarendon Press, 1875 - 384 pagina's
 

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Pagina 56 - At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast; And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons flew , As in the storm the white sea-mew.
Pagina 202 - I should not scruple to say they would not only receive no advantage, but would lose, in a great measure, the effect which they now have on every mind susceptible of great and noble ideas. His works may be said to be all genius and soul; and why should they be loaded with heavy matter, which can only counteract his purpose by retarding the progress of the imagination...
Pagina 54 - Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Pagina 257 - Composition means, literally and simply, putting several things together so as to make one thing out of them ; the nature and goodness of which they all have a share in producing.
Pagina 8 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Pagina 56 - Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again. Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly ; And stainless Tunstall's banner white, And Edmund Howard's lion bright...
Pagina 36 - The Good Shepherd entirely disappeared, the miracles of mercy became less frequent, and were replaced by the details of the Passion and the terrors of the Last Judgment. The countenance of Christ became sterner, older, and more mournful. About the twelfth century, this change became almost universal.
Pagina 288 - The hand of Douglass is his own." " The world is all before him, where to choose : " and poor as may be my opinion of the British parliament, I cannot believe that it will ever sink to such a depth of infamy as to pass a law for the recapture of fugitive Irishmen! The shame and scandal of kidnapping will long remain wholly monopolized by the American congress. The Irishman has not only...
Pagina 257 - A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand. It is the essence of composition that everything should be in a determined place, perform an intended part, and act, in that part, advantageously for everything that is connected with it.
Pagina 36 - Isaac, the three children unscathed among the flames, and St. Peter led to prison, are the only images that reveal the horrible persecution that was raging. There was no disposition to perpetuate forms of suffering; no ebullition of bitterness or complaint ; no thirsting for vengeance. Neither the Crucifixion, nor any of the scenes of the Passion, were ever represented ; nor was the Day of Judgment ; nor were the sufferings of the lost. The wreaths of flowers, in which Paganism delighted, and even...

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