| Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 358 pages
...heads were various — the male were decided and grand ; the female, lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegant and finely formed...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with or contrasting the outline and chiaro-oscuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able... | |
| 1834 - 730 pages
...heads were various : — the male were decided and grand, the female lovely : his figures resembled the antique — the limbs were elegant and finely formed;...lines of which were finely varied with the union or ex, punsion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with, or contrasting the outline, and chiaro-scuro.... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 260 pages
...heads were various : — the male was decided and grand, the female lovely : his figures resembled the antique, — the limbs were elegant and finely formed...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with, or contrasting the outline and chiaroscuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1841 - 522 pages
...heads were various ; the rnalo were decided and grand ; the female lovely ; his figures resembled the antique ; the limbs were elegant and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood. ' Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches.'... | |
| Ralph Nickolson Wornum - 1847 - 534 pages
...His heads were various; the male were decided and grand; the female lovely; his figures resembled the antique ; the limbs were elegant and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood." " Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches."... | |
| Ralph Nicholson Wornum - 1847 - 520 pages
...heads were various ; the male were decided and grand ; the female lovely ; his figures resembled the antique ; the limbs were elegant and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood." " Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches."'... | |
| 1841 - 524 pages
...heads were various ; the male were decided and grand ; the female lovely ; his figures resembled the antique; the limbs were elegant and finely formed; his drapery was well understood." 'Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in s* many different branches.'... | |
| John Francis Waller - 1857 - 228 pages
..."were various. The male were decided and grand, the female lovely. His fignres resembled the antiqne ; the limbs were elegant, and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood. Few artists since tho fifteenth century have been able to do so mnch in so many different branches."—... | |
| Englishmen - 1863 - 912 pages
...heads were various : — the male was decided and grand, the female lovely : his figures resembled the antique, — the limbs were elegant and finely formed;...or, by its adhesion and transparency, discovering tin- form of the figure, the lines of which were finely varied with the union or expansion of spiral... | |
| Ralph Nicholson Wornum - 1864 - 674 pages
...heads were various ; the male were decided and grand ; the female lovely ; his figures resembled the antique ; the limbs were elegant and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood." " Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches."1... | |
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