A Short History of ArtDodd, Mead, 1881 - 365 oldal |
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299. oldal - Emigravit is the inscription on the tomb-stone where he lies ; Dead he is not, — but departed, — for the artist never dies. Fairer seems the ancient city, and the sunshine seems more fair, That he once has trod its pavement, that he once has breathed its...
336. oldal - It is absurd, you will say (and with a great deal of reason), for Titmarsh, or any other Briton, to grow so politically enthusiastic about a four-foot canvas, representing a ship, a steamer, a river, and a sunset. But herein surely lies the power of the great artist. He makes you see and think of a great deal more than the objects before you ; he knows how to soothe or...
260. oldal - ... of light and shadow, the simplicity of colouring, which, holding its proper rank, does not draw aside the least part of the attention from the subject, and the solemn effect of that twilight which seems diffused over his pictures, appear to me to correspond with grave and dignified subjects, better than the more artificial brilliancy of sunshine which enlightens the pictures of Titian...
159. oldal - ... awful presence. Its form and distribution was a confession of faith ; it typified the creed. Everywhere was the mystic number ; the Trinity was. proclaimed by the nave and the aisles (multiplied sometimes as at Bourges and elsewhere to the other sacred number, seven), the three richly ornamented recesses of the portal, the three towers. The Rose over the west was the Unity ; the whole building was a Cross. The altar with its decorations announced the Real Perpetual Presence. The solemn Crypt...
362. oldal - Bay, a principal compartment or division in the architectural arrangement of a building, marked either by the buttresses or pilasters on the walls, by the disposition of the main ribs of the vaulting of the interior, by the main arches and pillars, the principals of the roof, or by any other leading features that separate it into corresponding portions.
331. oldal - I consider general copying as a delusive kind of industry ; the Student satisfies himself with the appearance of doing something : he falls into the dangerous habit of imitating without selecting, and of labouring without any determinate object ; as it requires no effort of the mind, he sleeps over his work ; and those powers of invention and composition which ought particularly to be called out, and put in action, lie torpid and lose their energy for want of exercise.
266. oldal - He gives us a peculiar cast of nature, which, though void of all grace, elegance, and simplicity, though it has nothing of that elevation and dignity which belong to the grand style, yet has that sort of dignity which belongs to savage and uncultivated nature...
314. oldal - ... hills and in the valley between them. The larger ones are situated in tuks, or separate enclosures, surrounded by high fortified walls ; the smaller ones line the silent streets. A few yatis, or priests, sleep in the temples and perform the daily services, and a few attendants...
364. oldal - IlpoVuXov, or Vestibulum, the outward porch; then the Atrium, or Area, the court leading from that to the temple, surrounded with porticoes or cloisters, as we shall presently see in the temple of Paulinus.
216. oldal - ... form as well as of its surroundings (realism). Instead of general types of face, we have individuals ; the traditional system of expression, of gestures and draperies is replaced by the endless variety of real life, which has a special expression for each occasion. Simple beauty, which hitherto has been sought for and often found as the highest attribute of the Saints, now gives place to the distinctness and fulness in detail which is the principal idea of modern art ; and wherever it does appear...