 Thus if .a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has no other means than by approaching it to a general idea. He leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities in the face, and changes the dress from a temporary fashion...  Lectures on the History and Principles of Painting - Pagina 447door Thomas Phillips - 1833 - 477 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pagina’s
...few instances that the lower may be improved by borrowing from the grand. Thus, if a Portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has...to one more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us. But if an exact resem blance of an individual be considered... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pagina’s
...few instances that the lower may be improved by borrowing from the grand. Thus, if a Portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has...and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to ono more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us. But... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 pagina’s
...few instances that the lower may be improved by borrowing from the grand. Thus if a portrait painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has...to one more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us. But if an exact resemblance of an individual be considered... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 pagina’s
...desires to raise and improve his subject ... he leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities . . . and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from being familiar to us — etc." Blake : Folly ! Of what consequence is it to... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 542 pagina’s
...desires to raise and improve his subject ... he leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities . . . and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from being familiar to us — etc." Blake : Folly ! Of what consequence is it to... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1909 - 518 pagina’s
...the grand. Thus if a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has no othpy means than by approaching it to a general idea. He...to one more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us. But if an exact resemblance of an individual be considered... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pagina’s
...in Particular. Page 109. ... if a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject ... he leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities...dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent. Folly ! Of what consequence is it to the Arts what a Portrait Painter does? Page no. Of those who have... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 456 pagina’s
...desires to raise and improve hia subject .... he leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities . . . and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from being familiar to us — &c." Blake : Folly ! Of what consequence is it to the... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pagina’s
...few instances, that the lower may be improved by borrowing from the grand. Thus if a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has...to one more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us. But if an exact resemblance of an individual be considered... | |
 | Christopher Sten - 1991 - 372 pagina’s
...portray "general ideas" rather than "minute particularities." "Thus," he wrote, if a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has...to one more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us. But if an exact resemblance of an individual be considered... | |
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