The Meaning of Pictures: Six Lectures Given for Columbia University at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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ANTONELLO DA MESSINA appear artist beautiful Bellini BENOZZO GOZZOLI BONIFAZIO VERONESE brush called camera canvas character charm Christ Claude Monet Corot Correggio decorative quality Delacroix distortion drawing DYCK emotional expression face fact feeling figures form and color Fra Angelico Frans Hals Gallery Gerard Dou Gérôme Giorgione Greek hand horse human idea illustrate imagination individuality insist Italian Jan Steen landscape less light light-and-shade literature look Louvre Madonna and Saints marble Marriage in Cana matter meaning Meissonier Michael Angelo Millet mind modern paint never original painter PALMA VECCHIO Paolo Veronese perhaps person pict picture Plate poetic point of view portraits produced Raphael realistic recognize Rembrandt Renaissance Rubens scene seen sentiment shadow Shakespeare Sower spirit splendor story suggestion symbol tell theme things thought Tintoretto tion Titian to-day trees true Turner Velasquez Venetian Venice wave Whistler words
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Page 71 - ST. AGNES' Eve! — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold...
Page 91 - And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes across the lakes And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Page 144 - Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works "arrangements
Page 63 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 96 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 75 - Are bright as on the earliest day. GABRIEL. And swift, and swift beyond conceiving, The splendor of the world goes round, Day's Eden-brightness still relieving The awful Night's intense profound: The ocean-tides in foam are breaking, Against the rocks' deep bases hurled, And both, the spheric race partaking, Eternal, swift, are onward whirled ! MICHAEL.
Page 37 - The colour of each painting was different — the vivacity of colour and tone, the distinctness of each part in relation to the whole; and each picture would have been recognized anywhere as a specimen of work by each one of us, characteristic of our names. And we spent on the whole affair perhaps twenty minutes. I wish you to understand, again, that we each thought and felt as if we had been photographing the matter before us. We had not the first desire of expressing ourselves, and I think would...
Page 97 - So sleep, for ever sleep, O marble Pair ! Or, if ye wake, let it be then, when fair On the carved western...
Page 96 - Adonis which afterwards drew with infallible touch, as though they were alive, the dogs of Theseus : " My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung " • . With ear.s that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls...
Page 75 - The sun-orb sings in emulation Mid brother-spheres his ancient round: His path predestined through creation He ends with step of thunder-sound.