 | 1810 - 576 pages
...heads were various, the male were decided and grand; the female levely : his figures resembled ihe antique; the limbs were elegant and finely formed...expansion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with r>r contrasting the outline and chiaro oscuro. Me modelled like a sculptor, carved ornaments in wood... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 358 pages
...beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various — the male were decided and grand ; the female, lovely : his figures...folds, composing with or contrasting the outline and chiaro-oscuro. Few artists, since the fifteenth century, have been able to do so much in so many different... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 272 pages
...beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various — the male were decided and grand ; the female, lovely : his figures...folds, composing with or contrastIng the outline and chiara-oscuro. Few artists, sin ce the fifteenth century, have been able to do so much in so many different... | |
 | 1834 - 730 pages
...beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various : — the male were decided and grand, the female lovely : his figures...lines of which were finely varied with the union or ex, punsion of spiral or cascade folds, composing with, or contrasting the outline, and chiaro-scuro.... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1841 - 522 pages
...beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various ; the rnalo were decided and grand ; the female lovely ; his figures...and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood. ' Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches.'... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pages
...of realizing on canvas. " His heads," says Flaxman, a high authority, " were various. The male were decided and grand, the female lovely. His figures...limbs were elegant and finely formed, his drapery well understood ; few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many branches."... | |
 | Ralph Nickolson Wornum - 1847 - 534 pages
...beauty, with a lively expression of nature - in all the parts. His heads were various; the male were decided and grand; the female lovely; his figures...finely formed ; his drapery was well understood." " Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches."... | |
 | Ralph Nicholson Wornum - 1847 - 520 pages
...beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various ; the male were decided and grand ; the female lovely ; his figures...finely formed ; his drapery was well understood." " Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in so many different branches."'... | |
 | 1841 - 524 pages
...beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various ; the male were decided and grand ; the female lovely ; his figures...and finely formed; his drapery was well understood." 'Few artists since the fifteenth century have been able to do so much in s* many different branches.'... | |
 | John Francis Waller - 1857 - 230 pages
..."were various. The male were decided and grand, the female lovely. His fignres resembled the antiqne ; the limbs were elegant, and finely formed ; his drapery was well understood. Few artists since tho fifteenth century have been able to do so mnch in so many different branches."—... | |
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... the beholder was forcibly struck by the sentiment at the first glance : the gradations and varieties of which he traced through several characters, all conceived in an elevated spirit of dignity and beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all... 
