An Outline History of Painting for Young People and StudentsWhite, Stokes, & Allen, 1883 - 320 páginas |
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ancient Andrea Angelico Annibale Caracci Antwerp Apelles artist beautiful became Bellini Bologna born buried called Caracci Cathedral chapel Church of Santa Cimabue color convent Copley Correggio court death decoration died Domenichino drawing Duke Dürer Edwin Landseer emperor England engravings executed fame famous father figures Florence Fra Angelico France frescoes friends gave Giorgione Giotto Giovanni Bellini Guido Guido Reni Holbein honor hundred important Italian Italy king known landscape Landseer Leonardo lived London Lorenzo Lorenzo de Medici Louvre Madonna master Medici Michael Angelo monks mosaics Murillo Museum painted painter Palace Pope portraits pounds praise pupils Raphael remain Rembrandt represented returned Rome Rubens Santa Maria scenes sculptor seen sent Seville Sir Joshua sixteenth century sketches sold Spain story style subjects thousand Titian tures Turner Uffizi Uffizi Gallery Vandyck Velasquez Venice Virgin visited wall-painting wife
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Página 256 - Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of art ; Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If Nature touch thee, drop a tear: If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Página 253 - Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Página 149 - able to mount so high, it was in vain for me to search ' his resemblance here below ; so that I was forced to ' make an introspection into my own mind, and into ' that Idea of Beauty, which I have formed in my own
Página 254 - I therefore wished to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage ; and further hope that they will be tried by the same test and criticised by the same criterion.
Página 149 - Archangel: but not being able to * mount so high, it was in vain for me to * search his resemblance here below;. so * that I was forced to make an introspection ' into my own mind, and into that Idea of ' Beauty, which I have formed in my own * imagination.
Página 265 - Royal family and of the nobility. I dined with the artist on the glorious 5th of December, 1782. After listening with him to the speech of the King, formally recognizing the United States of America as in the rank...
Página 292 - In point of fact, no landscape-painter has yet appeared with such versatility of talent. His historical landscapes exhibit the most exquisite feeling for beauty of lines and effect of lighting; at the same time he has the power of making them express the most varied moods of nature...
Página 196 - This I have drawn from myself from the looking-glass in the year 1484, when I was still a child." The face, notwithstanding the relative imperfection of the drawing, is interesting and thoughtful, almost melancholy. The eyes are large and intelligent; the nose long, delicate, and slightly aquiline; the mouth small but full ; the forehead hidden by the hair, which is cut across it in mediaeval fashion.
Página 124 - ... with the trees waving their distracted boughs amid the violence of the tempest, have rendered this picture famous as a piece of scenic poetry as well as of dramatic expression. The next event of Titian's life was his journey to Bologna in 1530. In that year the Emperor Charles V. and Pope Clement VII. met at Bologna, each surrounded by a brilliant retinue of the most distinguished soldiers, statesmen, and scholars of Germany and Italy. Through the influence of his friend Aretino, Titian was recommended...
Página 265 - I dined with the artist on the glorious 5th of December, 1782, after listening with him to the speech of the king, formally recognizing the United States of America as in the rank of nations.