 | 1877 - 564 sivua
...name of Apelles in Pliny is the synonym of unrivalled and unattainable •excellence " ; and again, " His Venus, or rather the personification of Female...art, the despair of artists : whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, whilst imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the... | |
 | 1851 - 490 sivua
...things or taste presupposes a perfect knowledge of the things themselves ; that colour, grace, and taste are ornaments, not substitutes of form, expression,...art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilh'ancy, the... | |
 | Miss Ludlow - 1851 - 486 sivua
...things or taste presupposes a perfect knowledge of the things themselves ; that colour, grace, and taste are ornaments, not substitutes of form, expression,...wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baflled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy,... | |
 | William Smith - 1853 - 1136 sivua
...things, or taste, presupposes a perfect knowledge of the things themselves : that colour, grace, and taste, are ornaments, not substi-tutes, of form, expression,...his Venus, or rather the personifi-cation of Female Grace,—the wonder of art, the despair of artists." That this view of the Venus is right, is proved,... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1855 - 1490 sivua
...ornaments, not substitutes, of form, ex1'Ге-*Ьп, and character, and, when they usurp that tjilr. degenerate into splendid faults. Such were the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or, raiher. the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline... | |
 | Daniel Huntington - 1838 - 492 sivua
...things or taste presupposes a perfect knowledge of the things themselves ; that colour, grace, and taate are ornaments, not substitutes of form, expression,...art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the... | |
 | 1858 - 518 sivua
...that kind of composition. It stands in the temple of Apollo, like the Venus Anadyomene of Apelles, " the personification of Female Grace, the •wonder of art, the despair of artists." The nearest approximation to its excellence is, perhaps, to be found in some lines of the " Epithalamium... | |
 | William Smith - 1859 - 1116 sivua
...things, or tnita, presuppose* a perfect knowledge of the things themselves : that colour, grace, and taste, are ornaments, not substitutes, of form, expression,...splendid faults. Such were the principles on which Apclles formed bin Venus, or rather the personification of Female Grace, — the wonder of art, tlio... | |
 | Greek and Roman biography - 1861 - 1116 sivua
...things, or taste, preeuppose« a perfect knowledge of the things themselves : that colour, grace, and taste, are ornaments, not substitutes, of form, expression,...Grace, — the wonder of art, the despair of artists." That this view of the Venus is right, is proved, if proof were needed, by the words of Pliny (xxxv.... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius Root - 1864 - 514 sivua
...to vulgar eyes, which constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist to another. " Such were the principles on which Apelles formed his...personification of female grace ; the wonder of art and the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrank... | |
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... imperceptible to vulgar eyes, which constitutes grace, and establishes the superiority of one artist »ver another ; that the knowledge of the degrees of things or taste presupposes a perfect knowledge of the things themselves ; that colour, grace,... 
