 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 540 pages
...constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist over another ; that the knowledge of the degrees of things, or taste, presupposes a...expression, and character, and when they usurp that title, dege« nerate into splendid faults; Such were the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist over another ; that the knowledge of the degrees of things, or taste, presupposes a...knowledge of the things themselves: that colour, grace, ami taste, are ornaments, not substitutes of form, expres-, sion, and character, and when they usurp... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - Painting - 1830 - 158 pages
...presupposes a comparative knowledge of things themselves : that colour, grace, and taste are companions, not substitutes of form, expression and character,...usurp that title, degenerate into splendid faults. This precision of hand and eye presupposed, we now come to its application and object, Imitation, which... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 420 pages
...presupposes a comparative knowledge of things themselves: that colour, grace, and taste are companions, not substitutes of form, expression, and character,...usurp that title, degenerate into splendid faults. This precision of hand and eye presupposed, we now come to its application and object, Imitation, which... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1841 - 800 pages
...constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist over another ; that the knowledge of the degrees of things or taste presupposes a perfect...Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force,... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1848 - 1482 pages
...things or taste presupposes a perfect knowledge of the thing* themselves ; that colour, grace, »inl taste are ornaments, not substitutes, of form, expression,...Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled ewv attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1848 - 660 pages
...eyes, which constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist over another; that color, grace, and taste, are ornaments, not substitutes,...usurp that title, degenerate into splendid faults."* When this department of his education has been thoroughly attended to, let him procure the " Hand-book... | |
 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - Painting - 1848 - 586 pages
....constitutes . grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist over another : that the knowledge of the degrees of, things, or taste, presupposes a...things themselves : that colour, grace, and taste are orna-> nients, not substitutes of form, expression, and character, and,- when they usurp that title,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...name of Apelles in Pliny is the synonym of unrivalled and unattainable •excellence " ; and again, " His Venus, or rather the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists : whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, whilst imitation shrunk from the purity, the force,... | |
 | Art - 1851 - 490 pages
...constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist over another ; that the knowledge of the degrees of things or taste presupposes a perfect...Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force,... | |
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... imperceptible to vulgar eyes, which constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist over another ; that the knowledge of the degrees of things or taste presupposes a perfect knowledge of the things themselves ; that colour, grace,... 
