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... , i . e . Titian , Tintoret , and Veronese , are , in our author's opinion , to be classed with the Dutch ; that 1 1625-1713 . Known also as Carlo delle Madonne . is to say , are painters in a style " 38 MODERN PAINTERS.
... , i . e . Titian , Tintoret , and Veronese , are , in our author's opinion , to be classed with the Dutch ; that 1 1625-1713 . Known also as Carlo delle Madonne . is to say , are painters in a style " 38 MODERN PAINTERS.
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... Titian's or Veronese's though it might be ? Yes , the reader answers , in the instance of such scenes as these , but not if the scene represented were uninteresting . Not , indeed , if it were utterly vulgar or painful ; but we are not ...
... Titian's or Veronese's though it might be ? Yes , the reader answers , in the instance of such scenes as these , but not if the scene represented were uninteresting . Not , indeed , if it were utterly vulgar or painful ; but we are not ...
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... Titian's home . Near the south - west corner of Covent Garden , a square brick pit or well is formed by a close - set block of houses , to the back windows of which it admits a few rays of light . Access to the bottom of it is obtained ...
... Titian's home . Near the south - west corner of Covent Garden , a square brick pit or well is formed by a close - set block of houses , to the back windows of which it admits a few rays of light . Access to the bottom of it is obtained ...
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... Grand Canal and the Giudecca . 2 Liber Studiorum . " Interior of a church . " It is worthy of remark that Giorgione and Titian are always delighted to have - - For the rest , this religion seems to THE TWO BOYHOODS 129.
... Grand Canal and the Giudecca . 2 Liber Studiorum . " Interior of a church . " It is worthy of remark that Giorgione and Titian are always delighted to have - - For the rest , this religion seems to THE TWO BOYHOODS 129.
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... Titian and Tintoret substituted , over one half of the church , their own compositions for the Greek mosaics with which it was originally decorated ; 1 hap- pily , though with no good will , having left enough to enable us to imagine ...
... Titian and Tintoret substituted , over one half of the church , their own compositions for the Greek mosaics with which it was originally decorated ; 1 hap- pily , though with no good will , having left enough to enable us to imagine ...
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Page 169 - But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection compatible with their nature. This is a noble character in the abstract, but becomes ignoble when it causes us to forget the relative dignities of that nature itself, and to prefer the perfectness of the lower nature to the imperfection of the higher; not considering that as, judged by such a rule, all the brute animals would be preferable to man,...
Page 58 - This is very beautiful, and yet very untrue. The crocus is not a spendthrift, but a hardy plant; its yellow is not gold, but saffron. How is it that we enjoy so much the having it put into our heads that it is anything else than a plain crocus? It is an important question. For, throughout our past reasonings about art, we have always found that nothing could be good, or useful, or ultimately pleasurable, which was untrue. But here is something pleasurable in written poetry which is nevertheless untrue.
Page 61 - And yet how is it that these conceits are so painful now, when they have been pleasant to us in the other instances ? For a very simple reason. They are not a pathetic fallacy at all, for they are put into the mouth of the wrong passion — a passion which never could possibly have spoken them — agonized curiosity. Ulysses wants to know the facts of the matter; and the very last thing his mind could do at the moment would be to pause, or suggest in anywise what was not a fact.
Page 67 - I see all the other dark-eyed Greeks; but two I cannot see, — Castor and Pollux, — whom one mother bore with me. Have they not followed from fair Lacedaemon, or have they indeed come in their sea-wandering ships, but now will not enter into the battle of men, fearing the shame and the scorn that is in Me? Then Homer : So she spoke. But them, already, the life-giving earth possessed, there in Lacedaemon, in the dear fatherland.
Page 36 - There may, perhaps, be too great an indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and, I think, I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine...
Page 17 - Stand upon the peak of some isolated mountain at daybreak, when the night mists first rise from off the plains, and watch their white and lake-like fields as they float in level bays and winding gulfs about the islanded summits of the lower hills, untouched yet by more than dawn, colder and more quiet than a windless sea under the moon of midnight; watch when the first sunbeam is sent upon the silver channels, how the foam of their undulating surface parts and passes away; and down under their depths,...
Page 202 - ... material things that they had loved and ruled over, and set the stamp of themselves upon — was to be swept away, as soon as there was room made for them in the grave; that no respect was to be shown to it, no affection felt for it, no good to be drawn from it by their children; that though there was a monument in the church, there was no warm monument in the hearth and house to them; that all that they ever treasured was despised, and the places that had sheltered and comforted them were dragged...
Page 20 - ... heaven ; the rose-light of their silent domes flushing that heaven about them, and above them, piercing with purer light through its purple lines of lifted cloud, casting a new glory on every wreath, as it passes by, until the whole heaven, one scarlet canopy, is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels : and then when you can look no more for gladness, and when you are bowed down with fear and love of the Maker...
Page 74 - Ah, why,' said Ellen, sighing to herself, ' Why do not words, and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature, that is kind in woman's breast, And reason, that in man is wise and good, And fear of Him who is a righteous Judge, — Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that began Their springtime with one love, and that have need Of mutual pity and forgiveness, sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him! Thou who hast to me Been faithless,...
Page 299 - I know that none of this wrong is done with deliberate purpose. I know, on the contrary, that you wish your workmen well ; that you do much for them, and that you desire to do more for them, if you saw your way to such benevolence safely. I know that even all this wrong and misery are brought about by a warped sense of duty, each of you striving to do his best; but, unhappily, not knowing for whom this best should be done. And all our hearts have been betrayed by the plausible impiety of the modern...