The Fine ArtsScribner, 1891 - 321 ページ |
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aerial perspective æsthetic Alfred Stevens ancient appear arch architect architrave arts of form breadth bronze building century CHAP character classical composition construction contours contrast conventions Correggio curved dance decorative delight delineation Discobolus distinct Doric drapery Egyptian elements essential example façade feeling festal festival figures Florence Florentine formal beauty forms of art fresco frescoist frieze give Gothic graphic art Greek hand harmony Hellenic Herbert Spencer human idea ideal imitation impasto impression Italian kind light light-and-shade linear perspective lines marble mass material matter medieval ment metopes modern monumental moulded objects painter painting Parthenon partly perspective Pheidias physiological pictorial picture pigment plastic play pleasure practice produced qualities recognised relation relief Rembrandt representation represented retina round Saltatione scenes sculpture shape significant Sir Charles Eastlake stone structure style surface temple texture theory theory of colour Theseus thing tints tion tone and colour treatment triglyphs unity Vasari wall whole
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297 ページ - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home ; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her...
154 ページ - Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works "arrangements
157 ページ - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
301 ページ - I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
323 ページ - Series has been largely due to the union of scientific with popular treatment, and of simplicity with thoroughness; qualities that win the general reader everywhere, and that in America make several of the Manuals highly useful as text-books. OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE By WILLIAM RENTON, Lecturer to the Scottish Universities.
8 ページ - Play is equally an artificial exercise of powers which, in default of their natural exercise, become so ready to discharge that they relieve themselves by simulated actions in place of real actions.
7 ページ - ... Inferior kinds of animals have in common the trait, that all their forces are expended in fulfilling functions essential to the maintenance of life. They are unceasingly occupied in searching for food, in escaping from enemies, in forming places of shelter, and in making preparations for progeny. But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength are not wholly absorbed in providing for immediate needs.