 All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure, or even in the folds of the drapery, must be sparingly employed. In short, whatever partakes of fancy or caprice, or goes under the denomination of Picturesque...  The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]. - Page 42edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 332 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of Sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Robert Burn - Art and literature - 1888 - 340 pages
...produced what may be styled caricature. Sir J. Reynolds says of the picturesque in sculpture : — " Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast therefore of one figure with another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1905 - 564 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere ; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...pleasure has little part. This art only partly represents nature. "Sculpture," Reynolds pronounces, "is formal, regular, and austere; disdains all familiar...dignity, and is an enemy to every species of affectation. ... In short, whatever partakes of fancy or caprice, or goes under the denomination of Picturesque... | |
 | Alex Potts - Art - 2000 - 442 pages
...strangely significant, conventionalised yet free of artifice and arid academicism. As Reynolds put it, 'Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art ..." and 'The grave and austere character of Sculpture requires the utmost degree of... | |
 | 1839 - 348 pages
...objection, the familiarity of the modern dress by no means agrees with the dignity and gravity of sculpture. Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere, — disdains...to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art. All contrast, therefore, of one figure to another, or of the limbs of a single figure,... | |
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