Michael Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character: they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raphael's materials... The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds - Page 53by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809Full view - About this book
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 pages
...belonging to J our own fpecies. Raffadle's imagination is not fo elevated ; his figures are not fo much disjoined from our own diminutive race of beings, though his ideas arex&afte, noble, and of great conformity to their fubjedls, Michael Angelo's works have a ftrong,... | |
| Samuel Felton - 1787 - 400 pages
...belonging to our own fpecies. Rafaelle's imagination is not fo elevated; his figures arc •' not fo much disjoined from our own diminutive race of beings, though his ideas are chafle, noble, " and of great conformity to their fubjects. Michael Angelo's works Iiavc a ilrong,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 428 pages
...their belonging to our own fpecies. Raffaellc's imagination is not fo elevated ; his figures are not fo much disjoined from our own diminutive race of beings, though his ideas are chafte, noble, and of great conformity to their fubjcfts. Michael Angelo's works have a ftrong, peculiar,... | |
| 1803 - 598 pages
...their very limbs or features, that puts one in mind of their belonging to our own species. Raphael's imagination is not so elevated ; his figures are not so much disjoined from our own diminuiive race of beings ; though his ideas are chaste, noble, and of great conformity to their subjects.... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 478 pages
...their belonging to our own fpccies. Raffaelle's imagination is not fo elevated ; his figures are not fo much disjoined from our own diminutive race of beings, though his ideas are chafte, noble, and of great conformity to their fubjefts. Michael Angelo's works have a ftrong, peculiar,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 486 pages
...their belonging to ourVown fpecies. Rarfaelle's imagination is not fo elevated ; his figures are not fo much disjoined from our own diminutive race of beings, though his ideas are chafte, noble, and of great conformity to their fubjects. Michael Angelo's works have a ftrong, peculiar,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 480 pages
...their belonging to our own fpecies. Raffaelle's imagination is not fo elevated ; his figures are not fo much disjoined from our own diminutive race of beings, though his ideas are challe, noble, and of great conformity to their fubjefts. Michael Angclu's works have a fbong, peculiar,... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 904 pages
...imagination is not so elevated ; his figures are not so much, disjointed from our own diminutive rare of beings, though his ideas are chaste, noble, and of great conformity to their subjects. Michael Angela's work» have a «tr jn.ij, peculinr, and nut k•d' character; ftey seem to proceed from hii... | |
| Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 928 pages
...belonging to our species. Raphael's imagination is not so elevated, his figures are not so much disjointed from our own diminutive race of beings, though his...seemed to disdain to look abroad for foreign help. Raphael's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own. The excellency of... | |
| Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 902 pages
...elevated, his figures are not so much disjointedfrom our own diminutive race of beings, though lus ideas are chaste, noble, and of great conformity to their subjects. Michael Augelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character ; they seem- to proceed from his own mind... | |
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