A General Dictionary of Painters: Containing Memoirs of the Lives and Works of the Most Eminent Professors of the Art of Painting, from Its Revival, by Cimabue in the Year 1250, to the Present Time, Volume 2Tegg, 1829 - Painters |
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Page 296 - ... and to such persons he certainly did not appear to advantage, being often impetuous and overbearing. The desire of shining in conversation was in him indeed a predominant passion; and if it must be attributed to vanity, let it at the same time be recollected, that it produced that loquaciousness from which his more intimate friends derived considerable advantage. The observations which he made on poetry, on life, and on every thing about us, I applied to our art; with what success others must...
Page 301 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. "Hail! and farewell...
Page 300 - He had none of those eccentric bursts of action, those fiery impetuosities which are supposed by the vulgar to characterize genius, and which frequently are found to accompany a secondary rank of talent, but are never conjoined with the first. His incessant industry was never wearied into despondency by miscarriage, nor elated into negligence by success. All nature and all art combined to form his academy.
Page 39 - ... that Claude used to explain to him, as they walked through the fields, the causes of the different appearances of the same prospect, at different hours of the day, from the reflections or refractions of light, from dews or vapours in the evening or morning, with all the precision of a philosopher. He worked on his pictures with great care, endeavouring to bring them to perfection by touching them...
Page 481 - He sought to repair it, not like his master, by the laboratory of his painting-room, but by that real folly, the pursuit of the philosopher's stone, in which perhaps he was encouraged by the example or advice of his friend, Sir Kenelm Digby. Towards the end of his life, the king bestowed on him for a wife, Mary, the daughter of the unfortunate Lord Gowry, which, if meant as a signal honour, might be calculated too to depress the disgraced family by connecting them with the blood of a painter.
Page 20 - Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Page 48 - ... for the heads of his figures. He is censured by all writers for his immoderate love of drinking; and it is confidently said, that having received, by order of the marquis, a piece of brocade for a dress, to appear in before the emperor Charles V. he sold it at a tavern, and painted a paper suit so exceedingly like it, that the emperor could not be convinced of the deception till he felt the paper, and examined every part with his own hands. He died in 1562.
Page 483 - The extremities of his figures are true, graceful, and exact; and the hands in particular are designed in the . greatest perfection, beautiful in their form, and delicately exact in their proportions. His draperies, which were taken from the mode of the times, are cast in a grand style, broad and simple in the folds, easy and natural in the disposition, and the colouring lovely.
Page 142 - Raffaelle, the grandeur of Caracci, nor the grace of Correggio ; but, as a faithful imitator of nature, if he is sometimes vulgar and incorrect, he is always true and natural ; and the sweetness, brilliancy, freshness, and harmony of his colouring, make us forget all his defects.
Page 296 - Whatever merit these Discourses may have, must be imputed in a great measure to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly.