Catalogue of the Pictures Forming the Collection of the Works of the Old Masters: With a List of the Engravings, Now Being Exhibited at the Gallery of the Lyceum Building, Брой 563G.F. Nesbitt, 1849 - 63 страници |
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Страница 49 - He excelled in every thing that he attempted to represent, and painted every object in the same free and natural manner ; always lovely and true in his colouring, as well as clear and transparent. He observed attentively even the particular times of the day, to express the various diffusions of light on his objects with all the truth of nature ; and in his pictures, the morning attended with its mists and vapours, the clearer light of noon, and the saffron-coloured tints of the evening, may readily...
Страница 59 - ... a portion of the charm which swayed them. This power of infusing one's own life, as it were, into that which is feigned, appears to me the sole prerogative of genius. In a work of art this is what a man may well call his own, for it cannot be borrowed or imitated.
Страница 35 - Landscapes iis backgrounds. and the antique, his tone altered, and his carnations had no longer the warmth which distinguished his early productions. In perspective and architecture he was perfectly accomplished ; and this enabled him to give a captivating air of grandeur to his landscapes, the scenes and situations of which were highly pleasing, and received peculiar beauty from the novelty of the objects introduced, the variety of the trees, buildings, and other ornaments ; every part being lightly...
Страница 1 - Vecchio, The Gallery, and that of the Pitti Palace, which is confessedly the finest single collection in the world ! It is in itself a world ; and when I am there looking at those glorious pictures that remain in unfading beauty while generation after generation comes hither to see them, I feel fully what was so well said by the old man who for seventy years had shown a famous picture in the Escurial : " We are the shadows, they are the realities...
Страница 41 - Rubens presents of two or three historical paintings, and a portrait of that artist's wife, esteemed one of his best, set out for Italy, and made his first residence at Genoa, where he painted many excellent portraits. From thence he went to Venice, where he so deeply imbibed the tints of Titian, that he is allowed to approach nearer to the carnations of that master than even Rubens. He then...
Страница 2 - I envy not the one who looks with a cold and indifferent spirit on these immortal creations of the old masters — these poems written in marble and on the canvas. They who oppose everything which can refine and spiritualize the nature of man by binding him down to the cares of the work-day world alone cheat life of half its glory.
Страница 16 - But if it be true, as we learn from history and experience, that free governments afford a soil most suitable to the production of native talent, to the maturing of the powers of the human mind, and to the growth of every species of excellence, by opening to merit the prospect of reward and distinction, no country can be better adapted than our own to afford an...
Страница 29 - If, separately taken, the line of Raphael has been excelled in correctness, elegance, and energy; his colour far surpassed in tone, and truth, and harmony; his masses in roundness, and his chiaroscuro in effect — considered as instruments of pathos, they have never been equalled; and in composition, invention, expression, and the power of telling a story, he has never been approached.