Epochs of the arts; including hints on the use and progress of painting and sculpture in Great Britain - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...a continual society of men of learning and distinguished talents, well suited to improve a mind endowed by Nature with the most ingenuous dispositions. He rose above all his contemporaries. But if we look beyond all these instances, to the acknowledged, permanent exemplars of Art, where are they to be found, but in a country, where Painters and Sculptors were Scholars, Philosophers, and Teachers f; and where their publick education embraced all that could strengthen, and all that could adorn the mind? Francesco Pacheco, under whom Velasquez studied, writes thus of him: "Al cabo de cinco unos, que estuvo en esta (que se podia ilamar) Academia del buon gusto, le case con mi hija, movido de su virtud, limpieza, buenas partes, y de las esperanzas de su natural y grande ingenio."--Diccionario de Los Prafessores de las Bellas Arlet. t Metrodorus Pictor idemque Philosophus, magna; in utraque scientia autoritatis. Itaque quum L. Paulus, devicto Perseo, petisset ab Atheniensibus, ut sibi quiun probatissimum philosophum mitterent ad eradiendos liberos, itemque pictorem ad triumphum excolendum, Athenienses Metrodorum clegeruut, professi eundcm in utroque pnestantissimum; quod ita quoque Paulus judicavit.--PtjN. lib. xxxv. cap 11. " Euphranorcm udmirandum facit, quod et catferis optimis studiis inter praecipuos, et pingendi fingendique idem minis artifex ftiit."--Quinctil. lib. xii. cap. 10. "Hie primus videtur,' says Pliny, " expressisse dignitates hcroum, et usurpasse symmetriam."--But testimonies of this kind of various Greek Painters are innumerable. The works of Apelles need no other proof of his various learning. Besides, as his master, Pamphilus, procured the enactment of the law, which confined the study of Painting to the hig...
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