 ... taste are ornaments, not substitutes of form, expression, and character, and, when they usurp that title, degenerate into splendid faults. Such were the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or, rather, the personification of Female Grace,...  An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age: Their Architectural ... - Sida 58efter Thomas Moule - 1833 - 179 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 sidor
...title, dege« nerate into splendid faults; Such were the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or rather the personification of the birthday of love,...emendation, whilst imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her tints." ' APELLES, an heretic of the second... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 544 sidor
...title, degenerate into splendid faults. Such were the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or rather the personification of the birthday of love, the wonder of art, the de-> spair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, whilst imitation shrunk... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 420 sidor
...were the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or rather the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists : whose...emendation, whilst imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her tints.* The refinements of the art were... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1841 - 800 sidor
...the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or, rather, the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her... | |
 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 sidor
...principles on which Apclles formed his Venus, or rather the personification of female grace, the tvonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled...emendation, whilst imitation shrunk, from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her tinted ' . '• The refinements of the... | |
 | 1877 - 564 sidor
...unattainable •excellence " ; and again, " His Venus, or rather the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists : whose...emendation, whilst imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her tints " (Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli,... | |
 | 1851 - 490 sidor
...the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or, rather, the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilh'ancy, the evanescent gradations of the... | |
 | Daniel Huntington - 1838 - 492 sidor
...the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or, rather, the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of the... | |
 | Amos Dean - 1869 - 550 sidor
...exquisite finish, in which may be summed up the distinctive beauties of his genius. That has been styled " the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose...emendation, whilst imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her tints."2 This picture was long afterwards... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1872 - 1478 sidor
...the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or, rather, the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her... | |
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