 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 664 pages
...historical, but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 332 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary ^ to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...historical, bnt as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 pages
...historical, but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 476 pages
...historical, but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 450 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say of... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1908 - 370 pages
...historical, but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1908 - 372 pages
...historical, but as poetical painting. His next sentence will farther manifest his meaning. " The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...aesthetics, and affected both the painting and the poetry of the period.] No. 82. NOVEMBER 10, 1759 DISCOURSING in my last letter on the different practice...nature." I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavoring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that... | |
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The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident.... 
