 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1771 - 622 pages
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full of difproportion, and fail very fhort of the true ftandard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever prefented to his fight; but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homer's... | |
 | Several Hands - 1771 - 614 pages
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full of difproportion, and fail very fliort of the true ftandard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any obje& ever prefented to his fight; but contemplated only that knage which he had conceived in his mind... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1772 - 656 pages
...he formed his Jupiter, did «,nof copy any objeft ever pre' fented to his fight; but con' templated only that image which ' he had conceived in his mind ' from Homer's defcription." And thus Cicero, fpeaking of the fame Phidias ; " Neither did this " artift," fays he,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...what is perfectly " beautiful. For the works of nature are full "of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias,...conceived in his mind from Homer's " description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias : <c Neither did this '? artist," says he, " when he... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
...perfectly *' beautiful. For the works of nature are full *' of disproportion, a,nd fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias,...copy *' any object ever presented to his sight; but 44 contemplated only that image which he *' had conceived in his mind from Hpmer*s " description."... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...is perfectly " beautiful. For the works of nature are full " of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias,...conceived in his mind from Homer's " description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias : " Neither did this " artist," says he, " when he carved... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...is perfectly " beautiful. For the works of nature are full " of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true standard of beauty. So that Phidias,...conceived in his mind from Homer's " description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias: " Neither did this " artist," says he, " when he carved... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...is perfectly beautiful. For the " works of nature are full of disproportion, and " fall very short of the true standard of beauty. " So that Phidias,...conceived in his mind from Homer's " description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias : " Neither did this artist," says he, " when he carved... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...is perfectly beautiful. For the " works of nature are full of disproportion, and " fall very short of the true standard of beauty. " So that Phidias,...conceived in his mind from Homer's " description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias : " Neither did this artist," says he, " when he carved... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Agriculture - 1825 - 892 pages
...what is perfectly beautiful For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when...Neither did this artist, when he carved the image of Jupfler or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as a pattern which he was to copy : but having... | |
| |
For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to his sight; but contemplated only that image which he had conceived... 
