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, Volumen1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819 |
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... object of his care , might be led even by so slight a circumstance to become a benefactor . Hence our author derived the scriptural name of Joshua , which , though not very uncommon , occurs less frequently than many others of this ...
... object of his care , might be led even by so slight a circumstance to become a benefactor . Hence our author derived the scriptural name of Joshua , which , though not very uncommon , occurs less frequently than many others of this ...
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... object : as it re- quires no effort of the mind , he sleeps over his work , and those powers of invention and disposition which ought particularly to be called out and put in action , lie torpid , and lose their energy for want of ...
... object : as it re- quires no effort of the mind , he sleeps over his work , and those powers of invention and disposition which ought particularly to be called out and put in action , lie torpid , and lose their energy for want of ...
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... object of the present memoir ; but that of Hebrew ; but finding his thoughts too much di- verted from other studies , after some time desisted from his purpose . " His discharge of parochial duties was exemplary . How his sermons were ...
... object of the present memoir ; but that of Hebrew ; but finding his thoughts too much di- verted from other studies , after some time desisted from his purpose . " His discharge of parochial duties was exemplary . How his sermons were ...
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... objects of this Institution , as stated by the Artists in a Petition to His Majesty , November 28. 1768 , were , 1. " The establishment of a well - regulated SCHOOL or ACADEMY OF DESIGN , for the use of Students in the Arts ; and 2. an ...
... objects of this Institution , as stated by the Artists in a Petition to His Majesty , November 28. 1768 , were , 1. " The establishment of a well - regulated SCHOOL or ACADEMY OF DESIGN , for the use of Students in the Arts ; and 2. an ...
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... object of Correggio ; and , however toilsome , is in various places strongly recommended by our author . " A steady attention to the general effect , ( as he has ob- served in his fourteenth Discourse , ) takes up more time , and is ...
... object of Correggio ; and , however toilsome , is in various places strongly recommended by our author . " A steady attention to the general effect , ( as he has ob- served in his fourteenth Discourse , ) takes up more time , and is ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...