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... painter to contemplate the ideas of the most natural forms ; and to make a judicious choice of several bodies , all of them the most elegant which we can find : by which we may plainly understand , that he thought it impossible to find ...
... painter to contemplate the ideas of the most natural forms ; and to make a judicious choice of several bodies , all of them the most elegant which we can find : by which we may plainly understand , that he thought it impossible to find ...
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... painter of men . In our times , Michel Angelo da Caravaggio was esteemed too natural : he drew persons as they were ; and Bamboccio , and most of the Dutch painters , have drawn the worst likeness . Lysippus , of old , upbraided the ...
... painter of men . In our times , Michel Angelo da Caravaggio was esteemed too natural : he drew persons as they were ; and Bamboccio , and most of the Dutch painters , have drawn the worst likeness . Lysippus , of old , upbraided the ...
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... painter ; and though I cannot much commend the style , I must needs say , there is somewhat in the matter : Plato himself is accustomed to write loftily , imitating , as the critics tell us , the manner of Homer ; but surely that ...
... painter ; and though I cannot much commend the style , I must needs say , there is somewhat in the matter : Plato himself is accustomed to write loftily , imitating , as the critics tell us , the manner of Homer ; but surely that ...
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... painter to v undertake the expression of those motions which are in the mind without a concurrent harmony in the ... painters , by the virtue of their out- lines , colours , lights , and shadows , represent the same things and persons in ...
... painter to v undertake the expression of those motions which are in the mind without a concurrent harmony in the ... painters , by the virtue of their out- lines , colours , lights , and shadows , represent the same things and persons in ...
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... painter can be chaste , who give us the contrary examples in their writings and their pic- tures . We see nothing of this kind in Virgil ; that which comes the nearest to it is the adventure of the Cave , where Dido and Æneas were ...
... painter can be chaste , who give us the contrary examples in their writings and their pic- tures . We see nothing of this kind in Virgil ; that which comes the nearest to it is the adventure of the Cave , where Dido and Æneas were ...
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