 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...Timaeum Platonis, as cited by Junius de Picturs V*t*rum.— R. of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when...had conceived in his mind from Homer's description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias : — " Neither did this artist," says he, " when he... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Aesthetics - 1836 - 528 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...had conceived in his mind from Homer's description." * In short, while the Greek artists perpetually studied nature, they discovered her best and highest... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Beauty, Personal - 1840 - 434 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...conceived in his mind from Homer's description."* In short, while the Greek artists perpetually studied nature, they discovered her best and highest... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1842 - 318 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...had 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... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Beauty, Personal - 1845 - 420 pages
...what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short oT the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when...conceived in his mind from Homer's description."*' • In short, while the Greek artists perpetually studied nature, they discovered herbest and highest... | |
 | 458 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...his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented tohis sight, but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homer's description."... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Christian sociology - 1849 - 250 pages
...character. You will find a quotation from Cicero, when speaking of Phidias, in one of the Discourses : — " Neither did this artist, when he carved the image of Jupiter or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as a pattern which he was to copy ; but having a more perfect idea of beauty... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1850 - 244 pages
...character. You will find a quotation from Cicero, when speaking of Phidias, in one of the Discourses : — " Neither did this artist, when he carved the image of Jupiter or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as a pattern which he was to copy ; but having a more perfect idea of beauty... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason - Aesthetics, Modern - 1852 - 518 pages
...Timaeum Platonis, as cited by Junius de Picture Veterum. — B of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when...had conceived in his mind from Homer's description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias : — " Neither did this artist," says he, " when he... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pages
...orators, and rhetoricians of antiquity true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, whi.ii he fovnied kis Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to...had conceived in his mind from Homer's description.' And thus Cicero, speaking of the «me Phidias : ' Neither did the artist,' says he, ' when he carved... | |
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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... 
