An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern, Issue 2 |
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Page 9 - I ihould fay, •)• that talle was a facility in the mind to be moved by what is excellent in an art ; it is a feeling of the truth. But fcience is to be informed of that truth, and of the means by which its effects are produced.
Page 94 - Correggio, this arrangement is the refult of fcience, it is a harmony, which fprings from a judicious and happy union of confenting colours.
Page 18 - ... and the proportionable diffidence of our own. I have rarely met with an artift, who was not an implicit admirer of fome particular fchool, or a flave to fome favourite manner.
Page 73 - twill not be. What is it ? AMIN. : A sadness here ! what cause Can fate provide for me, to make me so ? Am I not loved through all this isle ? The king Rains greatness on me. Have I not received A lady to my bed, that in her eye Keeps mounting fire, and on her tender cheeks Inevitable...
Page 14 - ... of Rubens, or the theatrical grace of Guido : this lafts not long ; it grows chafte in its purfuit ; and flighting thofe falfe beauties, dwells on the native and mellow tints of Titian ; on the unforced attitudes, and elegant fimplicity of Raphael. Was this change, in both cafes...
Page 13 - This too, will be the more decifive, as poetry is an union of the two powers of mufick and picture. In this, the imagination, on its firft fetting out, ever prefers extravagance to juftnefs, or falfe beauties to true -, it kindles at the flafhes of Claudian ; and flutters at the points of Statius ; this is its childhood.
Page 12 - This applies itAR 1760. 251 felf to our prefent fubjefl : the eye has its principle of correfpondence with what is juft, beautiful, and elegant : it acquires, like the ear, an § habitual, delicacy ; and anfwers, with the fame fidelity and preciiion, to the fineft impreffions : verfed in the works of the beft painters, it foon learns to diftinguifh.
Page 180 - Lystra are about to sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas, it was necessary to let us into the cause of all the motion and hurry before us ; accordingly, the cripple, whom they had miraculously healed, appears in the crowd ; observe the means which the painter has used to distinguish this object, and of course to open the subject of his piece. His crutches, now useless, are thrown to the ground ; his attitude is that of one accustomed to such a support, and still doubtful of...
Page 181 - The wit of man could not devise means more certain of the end proposed ; such a chain of circumstances is equal to a narration , and I cannot but think, that the whole would have been an example of invention and conduct, even in the happiest age of antiquity.
Page 9 - It is eafy to conceive, that, different as thefe principles may be in their fetting out, they muft often unite in their decifions : This agreement will occafion their being miftaken one for the other, which is the cafe, when it is affirmed, that no one but an artift can form a right judgment of fculpture or painting. This maxim may hold indeed with...