A Biographical History of the Fine Arts: Being Memoirs of the Lives and Works of Eminent Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects. From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Alphabetically Arranged, and Condensed from the Best Authorities. Including the Works of Vasari, Lanzi, Kugler, Dr. Waagen, Bryan, Pilkington, Walpole, Sir C. Eastlake, and Mrs. Jameson. With Chronological Tables of Artists and Their Schools, Plates of Monograms, Etc., and Supplement, Volume 1George Gebbie, 1873 - Artists |
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Page xviii - An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver; with Observations by H. Davy.
Page 212 - From the lofty portico of a palace, an imperial personage is watching the procession, surrounded by her children, attendants, and guards. Nations have been subjugated, man has reached the summit of human glory. Wealth, power, knowledge, and taste, have worked together and accomplished the highest meed of human achievement and Empire.
Page 212 - ... conqueror, robed in purple, is mounted on a car drawn by an elephant, and surrounded by captives and a numerous train of guards and servants, many of them bearing pictures and golden treasures. As he is about to pass the triumphal arch, beautiful girls strew flowers in his path ; gay festoons of drapery hang from the clustered columns ; golden trophies glitter in the sun, and incense rises from silver censers. Before a Doric temple, on the left, a multitude of white-robed priests are standing...
Page 54 - To those who may be curious to know my reasons, I can only say, that, as the new world gave me birth and liberty, the great man who ensured its independence is next to my heart He had a nobility of mind, and a generosity of soul, such as are seldom possessed.
Page 298 - At the breaking out of the civil war he took up arms for the King, and was taken prisoner.
Page 88 - Vergennes, in 1787, led to his recall, and the rest of his life was given mainly to artistic pursuits. On his return to Paris he was admitted a member of the Academy of Painting. After a brief interval he returned to Italy, living chiefly at Venice. He also visited Florence and Bologna, and afterwards went to Switzerland. While there he heard that his property had been confiscated, and his name placed on the list of the proscribed, and with characteristic courage...
Page 333 - Do but the tenth part of what you can do.' Hang that up in your bed-room, my friend, said Lavater, and I know what will be the result.
Page xxvii - ... passion, in painting, denotes a motion of the body, accompanied with certain airs of the face, which mark an agitation of soul. So that every passion is an expression, but not every expression a passion.
Page 32 - His chief works at Rome are the Crucifixion of St. Peter, in the Church of S. Maria del Popolo, and the Entombing of our Saviour, in the Chiesa Nuova.
Page 188 - His statue, 120 feet high, stood in a court ornamented with porticoes of three files of lofty columns, each file a mile long : the gardens were of vast extent, with vineyards, meadows, and woods, filled with every sort of domestic and wild animals : a pond was converted into a sea, surrounded by a sufficient number of edifices to form a city : pearls, gems, and the most precious materials were used...