Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and CharacterR. Bentley, 1853 - 416 páginas |
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... genius illustrated by a reference to the childhood of Titian , Giotto , Hogarth , Velasquez , Huysman , Gainsborough , Bird , Morland , Opie , Cimabue , Filippo Lippi , Domenico Ghirlandajo , Andrea del Castagno , Fuseli , West , Blake ...
... genius illustrated by a reference to the childhood of Titian , Giotto , Hogarth , Velasquez , Huysman , Gainsborough , Bird , Morland , Opie , Cimabue , Filippo Lippi , Domenico Ghirlandajo , Andrea del Castagno , Fuseli , West , Blake ...
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... genius manifested by artists , as in tracing the noble river to its obscure source . In the peculiar realm which they are destined to inhabit and adorn , painters are emphatically " native and to the manner born . " " As I had naturally ...
... genius manifested by artists , as in tracing the noble river to its obscure source . In the peculiar realm which they are destined to inhabit and adorn , painters are emphatically " native and to the manner born . " " As I had naturally ...
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... genius which distinguished the pro- ductions of his maturer years ; and , in the studio of Francisco de Herrera , exercised his pencil in pourtraying the peasantry in the streets , or the frequenters of the posadas of Seville ...
... genius which distinguished the pro- ductions of his maturer years ; and , in the studio of Francisco de Herrera , exercised his pencil in pourtraying the peasantry in the streets , or the frequenters of the posadas of Seville ...
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... genius while yet a boy , and forsook his studies for the more congenial occupation of drawing men , horses , build- ings , & c . , on the books and papers entrusted to him for the purposes of education . In the earliest child- hood of ...
... genius while yet a boy , and forsook his studies for the more congenial occupation of drawing men , horses , build- ings , & c . , on the books and papers entrusted to him for the purposes of education . In the earliest child- hood of ...
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... genius which afterwards perpetuated the features of so many of his brethren in the Royal Academy . The first efforts of DAVID ALLAN were uncouthly traced with chalk upon the floor of his father's house , in which an accident confined ...
... genius which afterwards perpetuated the features of so many of his brethren in the Royal Academy . The first efforts of DAVID ALLAN were uncouthly traced with chalk upon the floor of his father's house , in which an accident confined ...
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accustomed admiration afterwards Albert Durer ALONSO CANO altar-piece Andrea Annibale Caracci Antwerp appears beauty Brauwer brother artist Buffalmacco canvas Cardinal CARLO MARATTA character charmed church colours commission Correggio court death delighted designs died Domenico Duke early age easel Emperor excelled exclaimed executed eyes father favour favourite fell finished Flemish Florence Francesco fresco friendship gave genius Giorgione Giulio GIULIO ROMANO Guercino Guido hand heart honour jealousy JEAN JUAN King labours lady Lanzi latter LEONARDO DA VINCI lived LUCA GIORDANO master Michael Angelo mind monarch Naples nature never noble obtained occasion painter painting palace Paolo Paolo Veronese patron pencil Philip picture poet poor Pope portrait presented Prince productions profession pupil Raffaelle received replied reputation Rome royal Rubens SALVATOR ROSA says sketches Spain spirit Stirling story talents Tintoretto tion Titian took VANDER Vandyck Vasari Velasquez wife young
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Página 58 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all-in-all his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music : / Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Página 403 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 197 - As we close it the club-room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of...
Página 139 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 49 - Born to the spacious empire of the Nine, One would have thought she should have been content To manage well that mighty government ; But what can young ambitious souls confine ? To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture near adjoining lay, A plenteous province and alluring prey.
Página 399 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 198 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the 'Why, sir!
Página 403 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the...
Página 248 - but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden ; there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness in the air. I heard a low and pleasant sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a roseleaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral.
Página 198 - There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we...