 The horses of the frieze in the Elgin Collection appear to live and move, to roll their eyes, to gallop, prance, and curvet ; the veins of their faces and legs seem distended with circulation ; in them are distinguished the hardness and decision of bony...  Demosthenes - Pàgina 309per Demosthenes - 1859Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Flaxman - 1829 - 466 pàgines
...lightness and elegance of their make, and although the relief is not above an inch from the back ground, and they are so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive. In those countries where the arts of design have been more admired for colossal size, and indefatigable... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 404 pàgines
...legs seem distended with circulation ; in them are distinguished the hardness and decision of bony forms, from the elasticity of tendon and the softness...suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive." To the heathen sculptors, who represented their gods and heroes naked, anatomical and geometrical knowledge... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 332 pàgines
...and legs seem distended with circulation; in them are distinguished the hardness and decision of bony forms, from the elasticity of tendon and the softness...suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive." To the heathen sculptors, who represented their gods and heroes naked, anatomical and geometrical knowledge... | |
 | 1830 - 658 pàgines
...lightness and elegance of their make, and although the relief is not above an inch from the back ground, and they are so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive.'—p. 104. We are much more disposed to agree with our author in what he says of the effects... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pàgines
...lightness and elegance of their make, and although the relief is not above an inch from the back ground, and they are so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely suffer reason to persuade us they are nul alive." Flaxman began life with making models for Wcdgewood pottery. They consisted chiefly of... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1833 - 340 pàgines
...distinguished the hardness -iud decision of bony forms, from the elasticity of * Dodwell, vol. ip 337. tendon, and the softness of flesh. The beholder is...suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive*." Of the victims represented upon the frieze, it may be sufficient to observe that to the Panathenaic... | |
 | 1840 - 272 pàgines
...lightness and elegance of their make ; and although the relief is not above an inch from the back ground, and they are so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely suffer reason to persuade us they aro not alive. Of this frieze, there is in the British Museum, in. slabs and fragments of marble, an... | |
 | 1840 - 274 pàgines
...elegance of their make; and although the relief is not above an inch from the back ground, and they arc so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive. Of this frieze, there is in the British Museum, in slabs and fragments of marble, an extent of about... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pàgines
...lightness and elegance of thcir make ; and although the relief is not above an inch from the hack ground, and they are so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely...suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive." — Flaxman. Phi9alian Marbles, (in the Phigalian Saloon). — 23 bas-reliefs, so called, found in... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pàgines
...lightness and elegance of their make ; and although the relief is not above an inch from the back ground, and they are so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely suffer reason to persuade us they arc not alive." — Flaxnum, Phigalian Marbles, (in the Phigalian Saloon). — 23 bas-reliefs, so called,... | |
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