Hidden fields
Books Books
" Contraft is the darling of their ideas ; in it they fancy every perfection. They fill their performances with cometlike excentric fouls, defpifing every thing but an Ajax or a Capaneus. Arts have their infancy as well as men > they begin, as well as the... "
Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions ... - Page 31
by Johann Joachim Winckelmann - 1765 - 287 pages
Full view - About this book

German Essays on Art History: Winckelmann, Burckhardt, Panofsky, and Others

Gert Schiff - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 390 pages
...they fancy every perfection. They fill their performances with comet-like eccentric souls, despising every thing but an Ajax or a Capaneus. Arts have their...infancy as well as men; they begin, as well as the artist, with froth and bombast: in such buskins the muse of Aeschylus stalks, and part of the diction...
Limited preview - About this book

Visual Culture: Histories, archaeologies and genealogies of visual culture

Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith - Art - 2006 - 376 pages
...they fancy every perfection. They fill their performances with comet-like eccentric souls, despising every thing but an Ajax or a Capaneus. Arts have their...infancy as well as men; they begin, as well as the artist, with froth and bombast: in such buskins the muse of Aeschylus stalks, and part of the diction...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF