An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of EuropeMacmillan, 1873 - 455 strani |
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Stran 71 - Thorwaldsen. He, like Canova, was most generous in his kindness to young artists, visiting all who requested his advice. I profited greatly by the knowledge which this splendid sculptor had of his art. On every occasion when I was modelling a new work he came to me, and corrected whatever he thought amiss. I also often went to his studio and contemplated his glorious works, always in the noblest style, full of pure and severe simplicity. His studio was a safe school for the young, and was the resort...
Stran 58 - the gods of Hellas have paled before a diviner light ; the great Pan is dead. But we have all some abstract notions of power, beauty, love, joy, song, haunting our minds and illuminating the realities of life...
Stran 78 - The idea has been consistently and impressively carried out ; on cither side of the nave stand the Twelve Apostles, and at the communion table Christ, with outstretched arms, looks benignly ' on the people. The architecture, though poor as poor can be, has one merit in common with that of the Museum, that it does not militate against Thorwaldsen's statues. Furthermore, the general aspect of the whole interior — architecture and sculpture combined — may be commended for its simplicity — a simplicity...
Stran 250 - Discourses pronounced at the Royal Academy of London, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which that illustrious artist sent me with his large picture ; in both productions one may easily trace a most elevated genius. I recommend to you to give my thanks to Sir Joshua, and to remit him the box I send, as a testimony of the great satisfaction the perusal of his Discourses has given me ; and which I look upon as, perhaps, the best work that was ever written upon the subject.
Stran 288 - ... from the North and from the South, from the East and from the West, all anxious to join as members of one nation for the good of our country.
Stran 250 - I have read, and, I may say, with the greatest avidity, those Discourses pronounced at the Royal Academy of London, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which that illustrious artist sent me with his large picture ; in both productions one may easily trace a most elevated genius. " I recommend to you to give my thanks to Sir Joshua, and to remit him the box I send, as a testimony of the great satisfaction the perusal of his Discourses has given me, and which I look upon as, perhaps, the best work...
Stran 14 - In this respect it would be of great utility if all over the country, in every large parish, for instance, or at least, in every district, several intelligent men would form an association, for protecting the most remarkable antiquities from destruction, and for co-operating with the lower classes, in examining barrows, and preserving antiquities.
Stran 19 - Or — was, for the reasons stated at page 354 of Vol. I., the metal with which the primitive inhabitants of Ireland were first acquainted. A greater number and variety of antique articles of gold have been found in this than in any other country in North-Western Europe, from the Alps to the utmost inhabited limits of Norway, or Sweden.
Stran 248 - On receiving this commission from the Empress of Russia, " Sir Joshua debated long with himself," continues Northcote, " on what subject to fix which might be complimentary to the Empress ; and at first I heard him say that he would paint the procession of our great Queen Elizabeth when she visited her camp at Tilbury, in the time of the threatened Spanish invasion. But at last he made choice of ' The Infant Hercules overcoming the Serpents when in his cradle...
Stran 248 - Serpents when in his cradle,' as the most fit, in allusion to the great difficulties which the Empress had to encounter in the civilisation of her empire, arising from the rude state in which she found it.