Art: Its Laws, and the Reason for Them: Collected, Considered and Arranged for General and Educational PurposesLee and Shephard, 1876 - 248 σελίδες |
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admiration ancient Apollo Belvedere APOPHYGES artist Athens attitude beauty breadth building called canvas character characteristic chiaro-oscuro Christ classic architecture color columns combination Composite order composition Corinthian Corinthian order cornice Correggio creation Doric dramatic drawing effect employed English entablature entirely epic ESSAY excellence exhibited expression feelings figure fillet French frieze give Gothic architecture grace grandeur Grecian architecture Greece Greek sculptures head Hogarth idea ideal illustrate impression invented Ionic order Italian Jupiter landscape light and dark light and shadow masses masters ment Michael Angelo mind Minerva mouldings namely nature object OIL PAINTINGS original ornament ovolo painter Parthenon passions Paul Veronese peculiar pediments perfect Phidias picture portion portrait portraiture Poussin present principles productions proportion Raphael regard representation represented resemblance Reynolds Roman Roman architecture scene sentiment simply statues style taste temple tion Titian triglyphs true variety Venetian Venus de Medici Vinci Wilkie
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Σελίδα 52 - Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Σελίδα 230 - VAULTING, a kind of vaulting used in late Perpendicular work, in which all the ribs that rise from the springing of the vault have the same curve, and diverge equally in every direction, producing an effect something like that of the bones of a fan.
Σελίδα 141 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Σελίδα 136 - ... into broad, deep, and transparent shade, he artfully connected the fiercest extremes of light and shadow, harmonized the most intense opposition of colours, and combined the greatest possible effect with the sweetest and softest repose imaginable.
Σελίδα 173 - ... of the gods, without whose presence no Greek festival was considered complete, and of the delivery of the peplos, the embroidered veil of Athene, given every five years. " The Temple of Minerva in the Acropolis of Athens, erected by Ictinus and Callicrates, was under the direction of Phidias, and to him we probably owe the composition, style, and character of the sculpture, in addition to much assistance in drawing, modelling, choice of the naked, and draperies, as well as occasional execution...
Σελίδα 164 - ... may extend themselves imperceptibly into public benefits, and be among the means of bestowing on whole nations refinement of taste : which, if it does not lead directly to purity of manners, obviates at least their greatest depravation, by disentangling the mind from appetite, and conducting the thoughts through successive stages of excellence, till that contemplation of universal rectitude and harmony which began by Taste, may, as it is exalted and refined, conclude in Virtue.
Σελίδα 208 - The column is usually made six times the diameter of the lower part of the shaft in height; the entablature is varied both in character and proportion by different authors, but it is always simple and without any enrichment; the capital has a square abacus, with a small projecting fillet on the upper edge; under the abacus is an ovolo and a fillet, with a neck below; the base consists of a square plinth and...
Σελίδα 216 - The general appearance of decorated buildings is at once simple and magnificent, — simple from the small number of parts, and magnificent from the size of the windows and the easy flow of the lines of tracery. In the interior of the building the're is great breadth, ornament is nowhere spared, and the roofing, from the increased richness of the groining, becomes an object of attention ; but amid all this richness, ornament, and variety there is a simplicity which is pleasing.
Σελίδα 233 - TYMPANUM, the triangular space between the horizontal and sloping cornices on the front of a pediment in classical architecture ; it is often left plain, but is sometimes covered with sculpture. This name is also given to the space immediately above the opening of a doorway, &c.
Σελίδα 216 - Gothic styles of architecture used in this country : it succeeded the Norman towards the end of the twelfth century, and gradually merged into the Decorated at the end of the thirteenth. At its first appearance it partook somewhat of the heaviness of the preceding style, but all resemblance to the Norman was speedily effaced by the development of its own peculiar and beautiful charac153 teristics.