Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions for the Connoisseur, and an Essay On Grace in Works of Art |
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againſt Alcibiades allegory almoſt alſo ancients antiquity artiſts Athenian bas-relief Bernini beſt characteriſtic coins Conf confequently connoiffeurs Contour Corregio courſe cuſtom Daniel Gran defign Diofcorides Diomedes diſcovered drapery Drefden eaſy Egyptian eſpecially exerciſes expreffed expreffion eyes facred faid fame faſhion fays feems fenfes fhall fhew fhould fignify figures fingle finiſhed firft firſt fome fomething foul ftatue ftill fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fymbol gems Grace Greek hand himſelf Homer ideas imitation infcription inftance inftruct itſelf Laocoon leaſt marble maſter modern moft moſt moſt beautiful Mummy muſt myſelf nature nevertheleſs obferved paffions painter painting Parrhafius perhaps Phidias pleaſe pleaſure Plin Plutarch poffibility Praxiteles prefented preferved pretended purpoſe raiſe Raphael reaſon repreſent reſemblance royal cabinet ſeem ſkill ſome ſtatues ſtill Stofch Strabo Stratonice tafte taſte temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe treatiſe uſe vafe Venus Vide Vitruvius whofe whoſe wiſh youth Zeus Zeuxis