The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1837 |
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 3 Allan Cunningham Volledige weergave - 1840 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 3 Allan Cunningham Volledige weergave - 1831 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 3 Allan Cunningham Volledige weergave - 1835 |
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Achilles admiration Alexander Johnston allegory ancient angels antique appeared artist Bacon Banks beauty bust bust sculpture CAIUS GABRIEL CIBBER carved character Chatsworth chisel Church Cibber clay Damer daughter designs dignity divine drapery drawings Duke Edward Walpole elegance Elgin marbles eminent executed exhibited fame father feeling figures Flaxman gallery gave genius Gibbons Gothic grace Greece groups guineas hand head hero Hesiod Homer honour Horace Walpole imagined imbody Italy John Flaxman labour lady living look Lord Lord Castlereagh loved magnificent marble ment merit Michael Angelo mind monu monument nature never noble Nollekens painter painting pedestal person Phidias plaster pleased poet poetic poetry portrait pounds praise Reynolds Rome Roubiliac Royal Academy says Smith sculp sculptor seems sentiment simplicity sketches skilful skill spirit splendid statue talents taste thing thought thousand guineas tion ture Venus Walpole Westminster Abbey wife Wilton workmanship
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Pagina 55 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Pagina 155 - This draws new clients daily to my house, Women and men of every sex and age, That bring me presents, send me plate, coin, jewels With hope that when I die (which they expect Each greedy minute) it shall then return Tenfold upon them; whilst some, covetous Above the rest, seek to engross me whole, And counter-work the one unto the other, Contend in gifts, as they would seem in love...
Pagina 224 - ... them the figure of their deliverer in the well-earned triumph of his important victory, from the whole of that grave multitude there arose an involuntary burst of gratitude and transport. They jumped upon him like children on a long absent father.
Pagina 6 - In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c.
Pagina 267 - Yclad in mighty arms and silver shield, Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield : Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit, As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit.
Pagina 293 - But we possess in England the most precious examples of Grecian power in the sculpture of animals. The horses of the frieze in the Elgin collection appear to live and move, to roll their eyes, to gallop, prance, and curvet; the veins of their faces and legs seem distended with circulation; in them are distinguished the hardness and decision of bony forms, from the elasticity of tendon, and the softness of flesh. The beholder is charmed with the deer-like lightness and elegance of their make, and...
Pagina 304 - John Flaxman, RA PS, whose mortal life was a constant preparation for a blessed immortality : his angelic spirit returned to the Divine Giver on the 7th of December, 1826, in the seventy-second year of his age.
Pagina 37 - ... Western Europe. It is therefore probable that the general idea of the work might be brought from the East, by some of the Crusaders. But there are two arguments strongly in favour of the execution being English ; the family name of the Bishop is English, " Joceline Troteman;" and the style, both of sculpture and architecture, is wholly different from the Tombs of Edward the Confessor and Henry III., which were by Italian artists.
Pagina 7 - Gibbon to Charles II., who was too indolent to search for genius, and too indiscriminate in his bounty to confine it to merit ; but was always pleased when it was brought home to him.
Pagina 131 - They wish to make no noise." I put Clara aside and looked at him. He was standing with his back to the fire and his hands clasped behind him; and I knew by the black look on his face that passion was boiling within. I had seen just such a look before he attacked me, that March night, in the adjoining chamber; and, though I could make every allowance for his anger, I confess I trembled for the consequences. He gazed straight...