 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias: — "Neither did this artist," says he, "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... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1878 - 992 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." 1'roclus, Lib. 2 in Tim/rum Platonis, as cited by Junius, de Pittura Vtterum. edge that fact and be... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 332 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 he formed his Jupiter, * Lib. 2, in Tiraocum Platonis, as cited by Junius <le Pictura Veterum.— R. did not copy any object... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 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 he formed his Jupiter, * Lib. 2, in Timseum Platonis, as cited by Junius de Pictura Veterum.— R. THE THIRD DISCOURSE. 27... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1905 - 564 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1909 - 518 pages
...disproportion, and foil very short ol tha true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed hia Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to...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... | |
 | Aristotle, Lane Cooper - Aesthetics - 1913 - 158 pages
...medium for the senses of his audience. Nor does he copy any work of nature. Thus Cicero, speaking of Phidias, says : ' 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 fixed... | |
 | Colin McAlpin - Aesthetics - 1915 - 460 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 Cicero, again, speaking of the same Phidias: — " Neither did this artist when he carved the image... | |
 | Frederick Burwick, Jürgen Klein - Art - 1996 - 576 pages
...of "poetical" inspiration, which is why Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any objeci ever presented to his sight: but contemplated only...had conceived in his mind from Homer's description. Reynolds himself departs from this ancient view by defining ideal heauty as an abstract idea or "central... | |
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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... 
