A Classified Synopsis of the Principal Painters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, Their Scholars, Imitators, and Analogists: Including an Account of Some of the Early German Masters, Connected with Those of Flanders and HollandH.G. Bohn, 1855 - 416 pages |
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Page viii
... every one who looks upon nature , and possesses a mind qualified to entertain and enjoy her beauties . Few indeed , with the least cultivation , but feel the influence of green fields , waving woods , flowing streams , and INTRODUCTION.
... every one who looks upon nature , and possesses a mind qualified to entertain and enjoy her beauties . Few indeed , with the least cultivation , but feel the influence of green fields , waving woods , flowing streams , and INTRODUCTION.
Page ix
... natural landscape . Among the Dutch painters in this department , Ruisdael , Hob- bema , Wynants , and Hackaert , are pre - eminent . Cattle and figures in a landscape , devoid of the ornaments of nature which these great masters have ...
... natural landscape . Among the Dutch painters in this department , Ruisdael , Hob- bema , Wynants , and Hackaert , are pre - eminent . Cattle and figures in a landscape , devoid of the ornaments of nature which these great masters have ...
Page xviii
... nature that the artist can succeed in the repre- sentation of aërial perspective ; he will perceive that in degrading the tint , she ( Nature ) at the same time renders the outline more undecided , effaces angular precision , pre ...
... nature that the artist can succeed in the repre- sentation of aërial perspective ; he will perceive that in degrading the tint , she ( Nature ) at the same time renders the outline more undecided , effaces angular precision , pre ...
Page xxi
... nature . Yet there are circumstances in which it is not only permitted , but necessary , to exceed the precise boundary of scale and proportion . Those objects , in particular , which are to be seen at a considerable distance , and ...
... nature . Yet there are circumstances in which it is not only permitted , but necessary , to exceed the precise boundary of scale and proportion . Those objects , in particular , which are to be seen at a considerable distance , and ...
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... nature , or the chefs d'œuvre of antiquity . It is further exemplified by giving more or less of beauty , dignity , or grandeur to the figure , according to the age , sex , or con- dition of the personage represented . It is not always ...
... nature , or the chefs d'œuvre of antiquity . It is further exemplified by giving more or less of beauty , dignity , or grandeur to the figure , according to the age , sex , or con- dition of the personage represented . It is not always ...
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