A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, Količina 2C.E. Goodspeed & Company, 1918 |
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admiration afterwards Allston America appeared Archibald Robertson architecture artist Barralet Battle of Princeton beautiful Benjamin Trott Benjamin West born Boston brother capitol Ceracchi character Charles Fraser Charleston Colonel colors commenced Congress copy death dollars drawing employed England engraver executed exhibition father finished gallery gave genius gentleman head honor instruction Jarvis John John Neagle John Trumbull JOHN VANDERLYN John Wesley Jarvis Latrobe letter London Malbone master merit miniature painter never original painting room Peale pencil Pennsylvania Academy Philadelphia picture plates portrait painter possession president prints profession Raphael received REMBRANDT PEALE returned Robertson rotunda Sargent says scene Schuyler seen sketch South Carolina Stuart style success Sully's talents taste theatre Thomas Sully tints tion Titian took Trott Trumbull Trumbull's United Vanderlyn Washington Washington Allston West wish wood York young painter
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Stran 323 - And it came to pass, as they Were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Stran 87 - The Box made of the Oak that "sheltered the Great Sir William Wal"-lace after the battle of Falkirk"— presented to me by his Lordship in terms too flattering for me to repeat, — with a request "To pass it, on the event "of my decease to the man in my "Country who should appear to merit " it best, upon the same conditions " that have induced him to send it "to me.
Stran 83 - I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect...
Stran 309 - The Miracle of the Slave and The Marriage of Cana, I thought of nothing but the gorgeous concert of colors, or rather of the indefinite forms (I cannot call them sensations) of pleasure with which they filled the imagination. It was the poetry of color which I felt; procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.
Stran 303 - Tis in this way that poets and painters keep their minds young. How else could the old man make the page or the canvass palpipate with the hopes and fears and joys, the impetuous, impassioned emotions of youthful lovers or reckless heroes ? There is a period of life when the ocean of time seems to force upon the mind a barrier against itself, forming as it were a permanent beach, on which the advancing years successively break, only to be carried back by a returning current to that furthest deep...
Stran 84 - I thought it most justly due ; into your hands I commit it, requesting of you to pass it, in the event of your decease, to the man in your own country, who shall appear to your judgment to merit it best, upon the same considerations that have induced me to send it to your excellency.
Stran 310 - I may here notice a false notion which is current among artists, in the interpretation they put on the axiom, that ' something should always be left to the imagination, viz. : that some parts of a picture should be left unfinished.' The very statement betrays its unsoundness ; for that which is unfinished must necessarily be imperfect, so that according to this rule, imperfection is made essential to perfection. The error lies in the phrase 'left to the imagination;' it has filled modern Art with...
Stran 300 - Spanish (I know not) that gave me my first hints in color in that branch ; it was of a rich and deep tone, though not by the hands of a master; the work, perhaps, of a moderate artist, but...
Stran 313 - This power of infusing one's own life, as it were, into that which is feigned, appears to me the sole prerogative of genius. In a work of art this is what a man may well call his own, for it cannot be borrowed or imitated. Of Michael Angelo I know not how to speak in adequate terms of reverence. With all his faults (but who is without them) even Raffaele bows before him. As I stood beneath his colossal Prophets and Sybils, still more colossal in spirit, I felt as if in the presence of messengers...
Stran 331 - Sun, in possession of the marquis of Stafford — this is a colossal foreshortened figure, that, if standing upright, would be fourteen feet high, but being foreshortened occupies a space but of nine feet ; the directors of the British Gallery presented me with a hundred and fifty guineas as a token of their approbation of Uriel.