 | James A. W. Heffernan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 261 pages
...represented in the arts descends to earth from heaven by means of "poetical" inspiration, which is why "Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy...that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homers description" (Reynolds 42). Reynolds himself departs from this ancient view by defining ideal... | |
 | 1839 - 348 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, did not copy any object ever pre• flented to his sight : but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from... | |
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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... 
