Pictures that Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young PeopleGrosset & Dunlap, 1908 - Всего страниц: 387 |
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Стр. 133 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Стр. 103 - Vandyck is of the company — in other words, how good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship and the society of one's kind, as, lighting a good cigarette, one sunk among the cushions in the window-seat.
Стр. 112 - And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost...
Стр. 207 - Praised be the most Holy Sacrament and the pure Conception of Our Lady." Conversation was not allowed unless pertaining to the work in hand. There was a fine for talking upon outside subjects, and upon profanity and vulgarity in manners. This was a na'ive and rather refreshing standard for an art school ! Murillo was fortunate in having attracted the attention and respect...
Стр. 153 - On the left-hand side of the picture is seen this door of the human soul. It is fast barred : its bars and nails are rusty ; it is knitted and bound to its stanchions by creeping tendrils of ivy, showing that it has never been opened. A bat hovers about it ; its threshold is overgrown with brambles, nettles, and fruitless corn — the wild grass "whereof the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth the sheaves his bosom.
Стр. 59 - I would, I think, let it go at less than its price for the sake of the eclat it may give you. The stupid English public, which has no judgment of its own, will begin to think there is something in you if the French make your works national property. You have long lain under a mistake; men do not purchase pictures because they admire them, but because others covet them.
Стр. 178 - The battle, already commenced, was necessary to add to the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and make the subject stand forth, but not to diminish it by saddening details. All such shadows I avoided, and presented nothing but a dismounted cannon, and some growing wheat which would never ripen. This was enough. The men and the Emperor are in the presence of each other. The soldiers cry to him that they are his, and the impressive Chief, whose Imperial will directs the masses that move around, salutes his...
Стр. 129 - An early access to a neighbouring painter drew my attention from play ; and I was, at every possible opportunity, employed in making drawings. I picked up an acquaintance of the same turn, and soon learnt to draw the alphabet with great correctness. My exercises, when at school, were more remarkable...
Стр. 161 - The next is a letter from Balmoral, dated June 1867 :— ' The Queen kindly commands me to get well here. She has to-day been twice to my room to show additions recently added to her already rich collection of photographs. Why, I know not, but since I have been in the Highlands I have for the first time felt wretchedly weak, without appetite. The easterly winds, and now again the unceasing cold rain, may possibly account for my condition, as I can't get out. Drawing tires me ; however, I have done...
Стр. 262 - I confess myself to be, by a natural instinct, better fitted to execute works of the largest size rather than little curiosities.