 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superiour kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 pages
...sense he studies Nature, and often arrives at his end, even by being unnatural, in the confined sense of the word. The grand style of Painting requires...other. If my opinion were asked concerning the works of Michel Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this mechanical merit, I should... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a tyeauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Thomas Sutton - 1858 - 344 pages
...is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in thé Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, that...cannot be obtained but by departing from the other." — RC The writer of the above essay, advocates portrait painting, and disparages photographic portraiture.... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | John Burnet - 1880 - 116 pages
...narration, and adopting every ornament that will warm the imagination. To desire to see the excellences of each style united, to mingle the Dutch with the...cannot be obtained but by departing from the other." These remarks show that it is always necessary for the student to bear in mind the nature of any of... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1885 - 654 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 332 pages
...of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty s certainly of a lower order, that ought to give place...other. If my opinion were asked concerning the works of Michel Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this mechanical merit, I should... | |
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... minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of Nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly... 
