Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London: With Critical, Historical, and Biographical Notices of the Painters and Pictures |
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... spirit thus infused was not always pure in quality even when it was great in degree ; and the various schools of painting are not so much distinguished from each other by the tangible characteristics of style , design , colour , & c ...
... spirit thus infused was not always pure in quality even when it was great in degree ; and the various schools of painting are not so much distinguished from each other by the tangible characteristics of style , design , colour , & c ...
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... spirit - is wanting ; individual patronage is confined , is mis- directed , is arbitrary , demanding of the artist anything rather than the highest and purest intellectual application of his art , and affording nor space nor opportunity ...
... spirit - is wanting ; individual patronage is confined , is mis- directed , is arbitrary , demanding of the artist anything rather than the highest and purest intellectual application of his art , and affording nor space nor opportunity ...
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... spirit ( and he had the right to that spirit ) to say , " Well , I am a painter too . " ( Anch ' io sono pittore ! ) - Rubens . Another we shall consider as the work of him who re- Annibal Carracci . stored painting when it was almost ...
... spirit ( and he had the right to that spirit ) to say , " Well , I am a painter too . " ( Anch ' io sono pittore ! ) - Rubens . Another we shall consider as the work of him who re- Annibal Carracci . stored painting when it was almost ...
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... tion or simplicity of manners ; they would disgrace even waiting - maids and sentimental milliners . - Barry . XXV . - A fine gallery of pictures is a sort of illustration of Berkeley's theory of matter and spirit . It is 1 INTRODUCTION .
... tion or simplicity of manners ; they would disgrace even waiting - maids and sentimental milliners . - Barry . XXV . - A fine gallery of pictures is a sort of illustration of Berkeley's theory of matter and spirit . It is 1 INTRODUCTION .
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... spirit . It is like a palace of thought — another universe , built of air , of shadows , of colours . Everything seems palpable to feeling as to sight ; substances turn to shadows by the arch - chemic touch ; shadows harden into ...
... spirit . It is like a palace of thought — another universe , built of air , of shadows , of colours . Everything seems palpable to feeling as to sight ; substances turn to shadows by the arch - chemic touch ; shadows harden into ...
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