The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volumen 3Harper, 1832 |
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... site paintings from the pencils of the first masters . The quantity of ornament is immense , but the qua- lity is equally wonderful . One of the vases thus pendent among birds and flowers is of an antique fashion GIPBONS . 15.
... site paintings from the pencils of the first masters . The quantity of ornament is immense , but the qua- lity is equally wonderful . One of the vases thus pendent among birds and flowers is of an antique fashion GIPBONS . 15.
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... antique vases . At his death his collection - and it was not inconsiderable — of pictures , and models , and patterns , was dispersed by auction . " Among other things , " says Walpole , were two chimney- pieces of his own work , the ...
... antique vases . At his death his collection - and it was not inconsiderable — of pictures , and models , and patterns , was dispersed by auction . " Among other things , " says Walpole , were two chimney- pieces of his own work , the ...
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... antique groups and statues and busts , and exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid accounts of the Italian galleries , and every poet's verse bore a burden of goddesses and gods . The nation , in truth , had feasted to ...
... antique groups and statues and busts , and exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid accounts of the Italian galleries , and every poet's verse bore a burden of goddesses and gods . The nation , in truth , had feasted to ...
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... cold and hard ; many of the antique statues have never- theless been finished till the gloss of the polish began to appear , and Canova himself revived this ancient practice with good effect . With all his en- ROUBILIAC . 45.
... cold and hard ; many of the antique statues have never- theless been finished till the gloss of the polish began to appear , and Canova himself revived this ancient practice with good effect . With all his en- ROUBILIAC . 45.
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... antique . It happened , on the other hand , that the god of Roubiliac was Bernini ; but who in truth could have expected that a sculptor , with fifty years and no trivial share of fame on his head , would put himself through a course of ...
... antique . It happened , on the other hand , that the god of Roubiliac was Bernini ; but who in truth could have expected that a sculptor , with fifty years and no trivial share of fame on his head , would put himself through a course of ...
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Achilles admiration Alexander Johnston allegory ancient angels antique appeared artist Bacon Banks beauty bust bust sculpture 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 favourite 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 Joseph Nollekens 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 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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Página 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.
Página 6 - I questioned him why he worked in such an obscure and lonesome place; he told me it was that he might apply himself to his profession without interruption, and wondered not a little how I had found him out.
Página 219 - Long with soft touch shall Damer's chisel charm, With grace delight us and with beauty warm ; Forster's fine form shall hearts unborn engage, And Melbourne's smile enchant another age;" ,referring to the busts of Viscountess Melbourne at Pansanger, and of the Duchess of Devonshire.
Página 308 - 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.
Página 49 - How firm established on eternal truth; Fervent in doing well, with every nerve Still pressing on, forgetful of the past, And panting for perfection...
Página 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.
Página 12 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Página 271 - A gentle Knight was pricking on the plain, 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 : m i * Full jolly knight he seem'd, and fair did sit, As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit.
Página 310 - He lived as if he did not belong to the world — his ways were not our ways. He had odd fashions — he dressed — you know how he dressed : he dined at one — wrought after dinner, which no other artist does — drank tea at six; and then, sir, no one ever found him in the evening parties of the rich or the noble : he was happy at home, and so he kept himself; of all the members of the Academy, the man whom I know least of is Flaxman.
Página 37 - Therefore this work is necessarily ill drawn and deficient in principle, and much of the sculpture is rude and severe ; yet in parts there is a beautiful simplicity, an irresistible sentiment, and sometimes a grace, excelling more modern productions." " It is very remarkable," continues this great sculptor, " that Wells Cathedral was finished in 1242, two years after the birth of Cimabue, the restorer of Painting in Italy, and the work was going on at the same time that Nicolo Pisano, the Italian...