The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: Containing His Discourses, Papers in the Idler, the Journal of a Tour Through Flanders and Holland, and Also His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819 |
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... Majesty soulprit . SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . and Tum demum sana mentis oculus acute cernere incipit ubi corporis oculus incipit hebescere . Seneca . niha accoring to Act of Parliament March 17 sa by Tadell Sal 0 THE LITERARY WORKS OF SIR ...
... Majesty soulprit . SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . and Tum demum sana mentis oculus acute cernere incipit ubi corporis oculus incipit hebescere . Seneca . niha accoring to Act of Parliament March 17 sa by Tadell Sal 0 THE LITERARY WORKS OF SIR ...
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... Majesty . Had such patronage been without effect , there had been reason to believe that Nature had , by some insurmountable impediment , obstructed our proficiency ; but the annual improvement of the Exhibitions which Your Majesty has ...
... Majesty . Had such patronage been without effect , there had been reason to believe that Nature had , by some insurmountable impediment , obstructed our proficiency ; but the annual improvement of the Exhibitions which Your Majesty has ...
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... Majesty's acceptance , as well - intended en- deavours to incite that emulation which your notice has kindled , and direct those studies which your bounty has rewarded . [ 1778. ] May it please Your MAJESTY , Your MAJESTY'S Most dutiful ...
... Majesty's acceptance , as well - intended en- deavours to incite that emulation which your notice has kindled , and direct those studies which your bounty has rewarded . [ 1778. ] May it please Your MAJESTY , Your MAJESTY'S Most dutiful ...
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... Sir William ) Chambers ; whose ready access to His Majesty , in consequence of his official situation , facilitated and gave efficacy to his exertions . cess . To compose these jarring interests , and to Xxxviii SOME ACCOUNT OF.
... Sir William ) Chambers ; whose ready access to His Majesty , in consequence of his official situation , facilitated and gave efficacy to his exertions . cess . To compose these jarring interests , and to Xxxviii SOME ACCOUNT OF.
Pagina xxxix
... Majesty , in Dec. 1768 * , was pleased to institute a ROYAL ACADEMY of Painting , Sculpture , and Architecture , com- * An Academy had been constituted under the royal patronage in 1767 ; but the plan was more confined , and the ...
... Majesty , in Dec. 1768 * , was pleased to institute a ROYAL ACADEMY of Painting , Sculpture , and Architecture , com- * An Academy had been constituted under the royal patronage in 1767 ; but the plan was more confined , and the ...
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Pagina 59 - A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them.
Pagina 154 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent : as by reading the thoughts of others, we learn to think.
Pagina xxix - their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life ; and in consequence you find there what you seldom find in other books.
Pagina xiii - It is much to be regretted that he did not live to compose such a Discourse ; for, from the hand of so great and candid an Artist, it could not but have been highly curious and instructive.
Pagina 77 - THIT value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. As this principle is observed or neglected, our profession becomes either a liberal art, or a mechanical trade.
Pagina cxxii - ... his native humility, modesty, and candour never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation ; nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eye in any part of his conduct or discourse.
Pagina 155 - The mind is but a barren soil; a soil V which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Pagina 42 - You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it.
Pagina 96 - And though in this respect the Venetians must be allowed extraordinary skill, yet even that skill, as they have employed it, will but ill correspond with the great style. Their colouring is not only too brilliant, but, I will venture to say, too harmonious, to produce that solidity, steadiness, and simplicity of effect, which heroic subjects require, and which simple or grave colours only can give to a work.
Pagina 33 - However, as the practice of copying is not entirely to be excluded, since the mechanical practice of painting is learned in some measure by it, let those choice parts only be selected which have recommended the work to notice. If its excellence...