The Works of Antonio Canova: In Sculpture and Modelling, Engraved in Outline by Henry Moses; with Descriptions, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1828 |
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action admiration ADONIS adorned affliction ancients animated antiquity ANTONIO CANOVA Apollo attitude Azara bas-relief beauty beholder BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR BUST IN MARBLE CARDINAL FESCH CARDINAL YORK character Cicognara city of Padua colossal composition countenance death divine drapery dress effect ENDYMION Engraved by Henry EQUESTRIAN STATUE excellence excited execution expression feelings female figure genius give grace grief hair hand head Henry Moses herma human form ideal imagination imitation Italy judgment KING OF NAPLES lovely LUCREZIA D'ESTE MADAME RECAMIER manner MARQUESS SALSA BERIO masters medal medallion MEMOIR OF ANTONIO METASTASIO metope mind MONUMENT OF CARDINAL Naples nature neck noble NYMPH object observed painter painting perfect Phidias PIUS VII plate poet portrait possess powers Praxiteles presents preserved principles produce Prowett respect Rezzonico RILIEVO Rome rules Sappho Sculpt sculptor seems SEPULCHRAL MONUMENT soft style SUPPLEMENTARY NOTICE taste THOUGHTS tion tomb truth Tuccia VICTOR ALFIERI Virgin weeping wholly young artist
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Page 17 - Artist has of his subject will more than compensate for any want of elegance in the manner of treating it, or even of perspicuity, which is still more essential ; and I am convinced that one short essay written by a Painter, will contribute more to advance the theory of our art, than a thousand volumes such as we sometimes see ; the purpose of which appears to be rather to display the refinement of the Author's own conceptions of impossible practice, than to convey useful knowledge or instruction...
Page 17 - The knowledge which an Artist has of his subject will more than compensate for any want of elegance in the manner of treating it, or even of perspicuity, which is still more essential; and I am convinced that one short essay written by a Painter, will contribute more to advance the theory of our art, than a thousand volumes such as we sometimes see...
Page 11 - London, dear and best friend, a wonderful city, handsome streets, handsome squares, handsome bridges, great neatness, and what is still more striking is, the well-conditioned state of man, which every where presents itself around. I have seen the marbles arrived from Greece. Of the basreliefs, we had some idea from engravings, casts, and the few fragments of the marbles themselves with us, but of the full colossal figures, in which an artist can display his whole power and science, we have known...
Page 5 - CANOVA. 5 elation of his works. The age was prepared in some measure to hail a reformer, but seemed incapable by its own energies of producing one. Canova at this crisis appeared, than whom, perhaps, no illustrious name ever owed less to external circumstances, in the cultivation of talents, or whose reputation is less dependent on splendid opportunities, not created by himself, of exerting them.
Page 20 - ... more likely to promote his own and the public benefit; for I fear that this superabundance will begin to incline to the wrong road, and by its overpowering influence carry away with it those who are capable of...