 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 σελίδες
...appeared [William] Kent, painter enough to taste the charms ol landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight ol imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden. He lelt the delicious... | |
 | Joy Monice Malnar, Frank Vodvarka - 2004 - 396 σελίδες
...Versailles, France. Copyright Giraudon, Art Resource, NY Gardening, Horace Walpole said that Kent was "born with a genius to strike out a great system from...He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden."34 Critical to his approach, of course, is the notion of a nature that simply required a few... | |
 | Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - 2004 - 292 σελίδες
...capable, dit-il, d'élaborer un système à partir du « crépuscule de tentatives imparfaites » : «He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden. »17 L'éducation de William Kent (1685-1748) l'amène à concevoir le paysage comme le fait un peintre... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 σελίδες
...Walpole (1717-97) credited Kent for being the first to give poetic form to the new landscape style: "He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden." Kent's innovations included a mastery of perspective, painterly contrasts of light and shape, the natural... | |
 | 1844 - 520 σελίδες
...: Kent w as, be says, " painter enough to taste the charms of landscape: bold and opiniative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...great system from the twilight of imperfect essays, he realised the compositions of the greatest roasters in paintings." Clarcmont and Esher were both laid... | |
 | 1922 - 870 σελίδες
...\\alpole said, "p.iiriter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a...system from the twilight of imperfect essays." He was very popular in society, and his tasto in art iniluenced the clothes, decorations, and furniture... | |
 | 512 σελίδες
...ornee gave him an example of the method inaugurated by William Kent, when — as Walpole wrote — he "leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden." Jefferson was the first American to hold this belief, and to act on it. Already his architectural skill... | |
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Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a... 
