The abuses of the National gallery, by Verax. to which are added, observations on the minutes of the trustees of the National gallery, including mr. Eastlake's report1847 |
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Страница 109 - The works of those who have stood the test of ages, have a claim to that respect and veneration to which no modern can pretend. The duration and stability of their fame is sufficient to evince that it has not been suspended upon the slender thread of fashion and caprice, but bound to the human heart by every tie of sympathetic approbation.
Страница 110 - From these considerations, which a little of your own reflection will carry a great way further, it appears of what great consequence it is that our minds should be habituated to the contemplation of excellence ; and that, far from being contented to make such habits the discipline of our youth only, we should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies...
Страница 56 - Turner — glorious in conception— unfathomable in knowledge — solitary in power — with the elements waiting upon his will, and the night and the morning obedient to his call, sent as a prophet of God to reveal to men the mysteries of his universe, standing, like the great angel of the Apocalypse, clothed with a cloud, and with a rainbow upon his head, 'and with the sun and stars given into his hand.
Страница 110 - A late philosopher and critic has observed, speaking of taste, that we are on no account to expect that fine things should descend to us — our taste, if possible, must be made to ascend to them. The same learned writer recommends to us even to feign a relish, till we find a relish come ; and feel, that, what began in fiction, terminates in reality.
Страница 64 - ... and spleen, and held forth as an enemy to the arts and artists. How far their mighty project will succeed, I neither know nor care; certain I am it deserves to be laughed at, and laughed at it has been. The business rests in the breast of Majesty, and the simple question now is, whether he will do, what Sir James Thornhill did before him, ie establish an Academy, with the little addition of a royal name, and salaries for those professors who can make most interest and obtain the greatest patronage.
Страница 46 - PAINTERS : Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.
Страница 57 - (No. 196), ptirchased in the same year. For another criticism of these purchases, see Vol. III. p. 670.] of the wretched panel which now bears his name is a mere insult), no Angelico, no Fra Bartolomeo, no Albertinelli, no Ghirlandajo, no Verrochio, no Lorenzo di Credi — (what shall I more say, for the time would fail me?) — but now, Sir, what vestige of apology remains for the cumbering our walls with pictures that have no single virtue, no colour, no drawing, no character, no history, no thought?
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