A hand-book of the history of painting, tr. by a lady [M. Hutton] ed., with notes, by C.L. Eastlake |
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Page 3 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 13 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 65 - Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Page 48 - Non era ancor molto lontan dall' orto, di' e' cominciò a far sentir la Terra Della sua gran virtude alcun conforto. Che per tal donna giovinetto in guerra Del padre corse, a cui, com...
Page xxix - Recueil d'estampes d'apres les plus beaux tableaux et d'aprtls les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France dans le cabinet du Roy, dans celuy de Monseigneur le Due d'Orleans et dans d'autres cabinets.
Page 73 - Lower down is the earth, where men are rising from the graves ; armed angels direct them to the right and left. Here is seen Solomon, who whilst he rises seems doubtful to which side he should turn ; here a hypocritical monk, whom an angel draws back by the hair from the...
Page 46 - Credette Cimabue nella pittura Tener lo campo, ed ora ha Giotto il grido, Sì che la fama di colui è oscura.
Page 72 - Saints next to them, severe, solemn, dignified figures. Angels, holding the instruments of the passion, hover over Christ and the Virgin : under them is a group of angels, in the strictest symmetrical arrangement, who summon the dead from their graves ; two blow the trumpets, a third conceals himself in his drapery, shuddering at the awful spectacle.
Page 204 - They serve to support the architectural forms, to fill up and to connect the whole. They may be best described as the living and embodied genii of architecture. It required the united power of an architect, sculptor and painter to conceive a structural whole of so much grandeur, to design the decorative figures with the significant repose required by their sculpturesque character, and yet to preserve their subordination to the principal subjects, and to keep the latter in the proportions and relations...
Page 211 - ... defects alluded to are less offensive to the eye. The lower half deserves the highest praise. In these groups, from the languid resuscitation and upraising of the pardoned, to the despair of the condemned, every variety of expression, anxiety, anguish, rage, and despair, is powerfully delineated. In the convulsive struggles of the condemned with the evil demons, the most passionate energy displays itself, and the extraordinary skill of the artist here finds its most appropriate exercise.