 ... 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
 | 1875 - 486 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, tJie evanescent gradations of the... | |
 | Miss Ludlow - 1879 - 494 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... | |
 | 1879 - 512 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... | |
 | 1877 - 562 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,... | |
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