 who takes for his model such forms as nature produces, and confines himself to an exact imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 362edited by - 1771Full view - About this book
 | Several Hands - 1771 - 614 pages
...what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of difproportion, and fail very fliort of the true ftandard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any obje& ever prefented to his fight; but contemplated only that knage which he had conceived in his mind... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1772 - 656 pages
...he formed his Jupiter, did «,nof copy any objeft ever pre' fented to his fight; but con' templated only that image which ' he had conceived in his mind...; " Neither did this " artift," fays he, " when he car" ved the image * of Jupiter or " Minerva, fet before him any " one human figure, as a pattgrn,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full "of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, " when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy " any object ever presented to his sight ; but " contemplated only that image which he " had conceived in his mind from... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
...Phidias, " when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy *' any object ever presented to his sight; but 44 contemplated only that image which he *' had conceived in his mind from Hpmer*s " description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias ; " Neither did this " artist,"... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 902 pages
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to his sight ; but contemplated only that image, which he had conceived in his mind, from... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 928 pages
...So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to his sight ; but contemplated only that image, which he had conceived in his mind, from Homer's description." Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias, says, — " Neither did this artist, when he carved... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full " of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, " when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy " any object ever presented to his sight ; but " contemplated only that image which he " had conceived in his mind from... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full " of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, " when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy " any object ever presented to his sight ; but " contemplated only that image which he " had conceived in his mind from... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...beautiful. For the " works of nature are full of disproportion, and " fall very short of the true standard of beauty. " So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, " did not copy any object ever presented to his " sight ; but contemplated only that image which " he had conceived in his mind from... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...beautiful. For the " works of nature are full of disproportion, and " fall very short of the true standard of beauty. " So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, " did not copy any object ever presented to his " sight ; but contemplated only that image which " he had conceived in his mind from... | |
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