 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1796 - 612 pages
...of all edifices. Though as a fculptor he exprefled the character of flefli more perfectly than all that went before or came after him, yet he never fubmitted...from his principles, but it has been his fate to have hsd bfauties and faults, afcribed to him which belonged only to his fervile copyifts or unIkilful imitators."... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...of all rdilites. Thmigh as a fculptor he expreflèd the character offlefli more perfectly than all that went before or came after him,, yet he never...with a negative colour, and as the painter of mankind rejefted all meretricious ornament. Such was Michael Angelo as an artifl. Sometimes he no doubt deviated... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 504 pages
...and in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting he contented himself with a negative colour, and, as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by his predecessors, he concentrated,... | |
 | Matthew Pilkington - Painters - 1829 - 586 pages
...traced the mastertrait of every passion that sways the human heart. In painting, he contented himself with a negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by his predecessors, he concentrated,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...and in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting he contented himself with a negative colour, and, as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 292 pages
...him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting, he contented himself with negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramanti and. his successors,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting, he contented himself with negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramanti and his successors, he... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...and in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting, he contented himself with a negative colour, and, as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 420 pages
...and in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man.* In painting he contented himself with a negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament, f The fabric of St. Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bra* Like Silanion—' Apollodorum... | |
 | Biography - 1833 - 504 pages
...in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting he has contented himself with a negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St. Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors,... | |
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Julio the second only excepted ; and in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting he contented himself with a negative colour, and, as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St Peter, scattered... 
