 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1872 - 340 strani
...unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore sush costume existed. The subject I have to represent is a great battle...gives law to the historian should rule the painter. I want to mark the place, the time, and the people, and to do this I must abide by the truth. They... | |
 | John Diprose - 1878 - 336 strani
...Romans, and at a period when no warriors wearing such costumes cxisted. The subject to be represented was a great battle, fought and won ; and the same truth which gives laws to the historian should rule the painter; that he wanted to mark the place, the time, the people,... | |
 | John Sherer - 1879 - 322 strani
...unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject I have to represent is a great battle...should rule the painter. If, instead of the facts ot the action, I introduce fictions, how shall I be understood by posterity ? The classic dress is... | |
 | Deristhe Levinte Hoyt - 1890 - 238 strani
...unknown to Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject I have to represent is a great battle...introduce fictions, how shall I be understood by posterity ? I want to mark the place, the time, the people, and to do this I must abide by the truth.' "They... | |
 | Deristhe Levinte Hoyt - 1898 - 298 strani
...unknown to Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject I have to represent is a great battle...introduce fictions, how shall I be understood by posterity ? I want to mark the place, the time, the people, and to do this I must abide by the truth.' " They... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1899 - 492 strani
...unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject I have to represent is a great battle...gives law to the historian should rule the painter.' They came again when thepicture was finished, when Reynolds said to Drummond : ' West has conquered... | |
 | Samuel Isham - 1927 - 728 strani
...to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costumes existed. " The subject I have to represent is a great battle...what I gain in external grace. I want to mark the time, the place, and the people, and to do this I must abide by truth." After the picture was completed,... | |
 | Rilla Evelyn Jackman - 1928 - 864 strani
...popular fancy was easily turned. Even the king became interested and remonstrated. To him West replied: "The subject I have to represent is a great battle...If instead of the facts of the action I introduce fiction, how shall I be understood by posterity? The classic dress is certainly picturesque, but by... | |
 | Peter G. Bietenholz - 1994 - 472 strani
...Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such [classical] costume existed. The subject I have to represent is a great battle...truth which gives law to the historian should rule the painter."4 ii2 Reiner Haussherr, Convenevolezza. Historische Angemessenheit in der Darstellung von... | |
 | Jules David Prown - 2001 - 342 strani
...one's country. West maintained, however, that in the age of Voltaire, David Hume, and Edward Gibbon, "the same truth which gives law to the historian should rule the painter."23 Fig. 17.13. Benjamin West, Tiie Death of General Wolfe, 1770. Oil on canvas, 60 X 84^ in.... | |
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I answered, that the event to be commemorated happened in the year 1758, in a region of the world unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and at a period of time when no warriors who wore such costume existed. The subject I have to represent is a great battle... 
