The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of TasteR. Scholey, 1810 |
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... better under- stood than in some pictures of Corregio , parti- cularly his Juno and Ixion : yet the proportions of his figures are sometimes such as might be corrected by a common sign painter . Whilst Albert Durer , who drew mathemati ...
... better under- stood than in some pictures of Corregio , parti- cularly his Juno and Ixion : yet the proportions of his figures are sometimes such as might be corrected by a common sign painter . Whilst Albert Durer , who drew mathemati ...
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... better seen by figure 43 , in plate 1 , but there is a curious little flower called the Autumn Syclamen , fig . 47 , the leaves of which elegantly twist one way only . deities of barbarous and gothic nations never had , nor PREFACE .
... better seen by figure 43 , in plate 1 , but there is a curious little flower called the Autumn Syclamen , fig . 47 , the leaves of which elegantly twist one way only . deities of barbarous and gothic nations never had , nor PREFACE .
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... better opinion of my pencil , than my pen , and turned their sneers into ex- pectation : especially when the same friends had kindly made me an offer of conducting the work through the press . And here I must ac- knowledge myself ...
... better opinion of my pencil , than my pen , and turned their sneers into ex- pectation : especially when the same friends had kindly made me an offer of conducting the work through the press . And here I must ac- knowledge myself ...
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... better fitted to receive these new impressions , who is in like manner too much captivated with the works of art ; for he also is apt to pursue the shadow , and drop the sub- stance . This mistake happens chiefly to those P. 5 who go to ...
... better fitted to receive these new impressions , who is in like manner too much captivated with the works of art ; for he also is apt to pursue the shadow , and drop the sub- stance . This mistake happens chiefly to those P. 5 who go to ...
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... better pleased on the account of variety . How pleasingly is the idea of firmness in standing conveyed to the eye by the three elegant claws of a table , the three feet of a tea - lamp , or the celebrated tripod of the ancients ? Thus ...
... better pleased on the account of variety . How pleasingly is the idea of firmness in standing conveyed to the eye by the three elegant claws of a table , the three feet of a tea - lamp , or the celebrated tripod of the ancients ? Thus ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Albert Durer ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY ancients Andrea Sacchi Antinous antique appear Beau Ideal body breadth called CHAPTER character chiefly colours common composed composition conceived cone considered contrary cuticula dancing degree dimensions disagreeable distance distinct doth dress effect elegant endeavour equal expressed face figure fitness give given gradating hand head horn idea imagination imitate kind Lamozzo legs length light and shade limbs line of beauty lour manner means ments midal mind minuet motion move movements muscles nature hath objects observed ornamental ovolo painters painting particular pencil perfect perly plain lines plate pleasing prime tints principles proper proportion Protogenes purpose quantity reader retiring shade riety round sculpture seen serpen serpentine line serpentine-lines shapes shew shewn simplicity Sir Christopher Wren sort species statue straight lines sufficient supposed surface taken taste tion turns twisted understood uniform varied variety waving line waving-line whole winding wires
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Página 4 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Página 3 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Página 25 - It is a pleasing labour of the mind to solve the most difficult problems; allegories and riddles, trifling as they are, afford the mind amusement: and with what delight does it follow the wellconnected thread of a play, or novel, which ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleas'd, when that is most distinctly unravell'd?
Página 3 - With regard to character and expression ; we have daily many instances which confirm the common received opinion, that the face is the index of the mind...
Página 26 - The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks, and serpentine rivers, and all sorts of objects, whose forms, as we shall see hereafter, are composed principally of what, I call, the waving and serpentine lines.
Página 27 - ... move successively with it from letter to letter, the whole length of the line: but if the eye stops at any particular letter, A, to observe it more than the rest, these other letters will grow more and more imperfect to the sight, the farther they are situated on either side of A, as is expressed in the figure: and when we endeavour to see all the letters...