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Book Synopsis Half-Length Portraits (Classic Reprint) by : Gibson Craig
Download or read book Half-Length Portraits (Classic Reprint) written by Gibson Craig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Half-Length Portraits T is somewhat difficult for an ordinary Englishman to picture to himself what a Roman Emperor was in the age when the power of the Caesars was at its best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis PORTRAITS (CLASSIC REPRINT). by : AUGUSTA. WEBSTER
Download or read book PORTRAITS (CLASSIC REPRINT). written by AUGUSTA. WEBSTER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Portraits and Caricatures of James McNeill Whistler by : Albert Eugene Gallatin
Download or read book The Portraits and Caricatures of James McNeill Whistler written by Albert Eugene Gallatin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classic and Historic Portraits (Classic Reprint) by : James Bruce
Download or read book Classic and Historic Portraits (Classic Reprint) written by James Bruce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Classic and Historic Portraits And as Octavius might have lost the empire of civilized Europe, if the voice and tongue of Cleopatra had been less sweet and persuasive than they were, so the Befor mation of religion in England might have been delayed for many a year - though it could not have been averted - had not, as the poet tells us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Portraits in Plaster, from the Collection of Laurence Hutton (Classic Reprint) by : Laurence Hutton
Download or read book Portraits in Plaster, from the Collection of Laurence Hutton (Classic Reprint) written by Laurence Hutton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Portraits in Plaster, From the Collection of Laurence Hutton The story of the beginning of my collection of masks is curious and perhaps interesting. The half -dozen casts upon which it is based were found, early in the Sixties, in a dust-bin in one of the old-fashioned streets which run towards the East River, in the neighborhood of Tompkins Square, New York. Their owner had lately died; his unsympathetic and unap preciative heirs had thrown away what they considered the horrible things a small boy had found them, and offered them for sale to a dealer in phrenological casts, who realized their worth, although, in many cases, he did not know whose heads they represented; and so, by chance, they came into my possession, and inspired the search for more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Unfinished Portraits by : Jennette Barbour Perry Lee
Download or read book Unfinished Portraits written by Jennette Barbour Perry Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Unfinished Portraits: Stories of Musicians and Artists The older man shook his head. She said not. She may change her mind. The painter glanced up quickly. He could see nothing in the face of the other, and he devoted himself anew to the child's head. It does not' matter, he said. I can work on the background if I feel like working at all, he added, after a moment's pause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Twenty-Four Portraits (Classic Reprint) by : William Rothenstein
Download or read book Twenty-Four Portraits (Classic Reprint) written by William Rothenstein and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Four Portraits The twenty-four drawings here reproduced by Mr. Emery Walker were selected from among many which it has been my happy privilege to make of my friends and contemporaries during the last few years. Two dozen are all too few where there are so many whose conduct and work contribute to our country's assets. The riches of the world do not all lie in mines or oil fields, nor yet in the safes of Banks, of Companies and of Trade Unions. Much of our wealth is supplied by men of vision who must often, lest they be prevented from giving their best, deposit their gold under men's pillows in the night-time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis An Imaginary Portrait (Classic Reprint) by : Walter Pater
Download or read book An Imaginary Portrait (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Pater and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Imaginary Portrait Half, tint and trace and accident of homely colour and form, from the wood and the bricks; half, mere foul-fluff, floated thither from who knows how far. In the houfe and garden of his dream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Third Gallery of Portraits (Classic Reprint) by : George Gilfillan
Download or read book Third Gallery of Portraits (Classic Reprint) written by George Gilfillan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Third Gallery of Portraits IN issuing a third gallery OF portraits, the Author has a few preliminary statements and explan ations to make. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Handbook to the National Portrait Gallery, 1872 (Classic Reprint) by : Dublin Exhibition of Arts
Download or read book Handbook to the National Portrait Gallery, 1872 (Classic Reprint) written by Dublin Exhibition of Arts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook to the National Portrait Gallery, 1872 Portrait painting may be said to stand at the head of all the various departments of painting. Of these it is the most difficult, because the most intellectual; but in its results is the most satisfactory. The historical painter arranges his groups, dresses, and incidents according to correct authorities, and trusts to a bold fancy or to the suggestions of friends for a judicious disposition of his characters. The painter of genre obtains his situation or incident, also by suggestion; and as the little scene tells its own story on the canvas, the painter is so far assisted. Landscape painting, indeed, if the artist goes beyond mere imitation of trees, and fields, and skies, requires a higher intellectual operation; namely, the discovering the moods and humours of nature, the mystery which gives the charm to some landscapes, which is independent of sunlight or shadow, with other influences to which the undefined poetry of the scene is owing. This piercing behind the veil to read the mind of nature is a high, intelligent operation, but one far lower than reading the mind of man behind the mask of the human face. The most vulgar of vulgar errors is the belief that perfect imitation is art. It is, in fact, the lowest and easiest shape of artistic success. It is in the Spirit of the Chinese tailor, who reproduced the patch or stain on the pattern given him to work from. Any copy of an objectthat has life will always be unfaithful, because wanting life, which is certainly not supplied by the conventional stare or hard gaze of the average portrait. For this reason a photograph is outside art, as well as a plaster cast, and the like. A terra-cotta casting might fall within the same category; but the artist gives a few touches here and there, transfers a part of his own feeling to it by a little free handling and moulding, and from that moment it acquires a certain life, and becomes artistic. The operation of ordinary commercial portrait painting is founded on some such vicious principle. The sitter is laboriously and faithfully copied, with his face and dress. There is not time to learn the character, habitual expres sion, and other familiar marks and tokens, which would require either long acquaintance or that brilliant intuition which belongs only to real genius. Such is, indeed, beyond the price that can be afforded for the average picture. Again, supposing some attempt to be made at catching expression and character, it is only an expression called up by the painter's order, as when he gives the hackneyed direction, smile now think of something pleasant. This curious air of unreality is further aided by the conventional attitude so much in favour with sitters and painters. 'if some unsophisticated stranger from a barbarous country, unfamiliar with portraits, were called on to state what attitude of daily life the gentleman standing by the pillar and red curtain was supposed to represent, or what the half-length smirking from the canvass was doing, he would be puzzled to answer. The only intelligible solution, which would be the real one, is, that he was standing there to be looked at, that he was conscious of this operation, and that the attitude of his mind, as well as of his body, both revealed the same impression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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Book Synopsis Sir Henry Raeburn by : Henry Raeburn
Download or read book Sir Henry Raeburn written by Henry Raeburn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sir Henry Raeburn: A Selection From His Portraits Men's sight than one Of the half-dozen true royalties of art - is a fact that should astonish nobody. Portraiture, indeed, is probably the most popular, being certainly the most 'interesting, ' of all the departments of painting; and from Holbein downwards through the centuries, its practitioners amongst us have lacked neither oppor tunity nor recognition in their lives, and in their deaths have been remembered and esteemed with an enthusiasm sometimes wholly disproportionate to their deserts. For one or another reason Romney commands a higher price than Van Dyck, unless Van Dyck be at his very best; while you could furnish a gallery with Lelys and Knellers, and have something over to spend in Raeburns, for the cost of a single Gainsborough. This, of course, is fame - fame of a kind; but the fame of Raeburn is far other in type, and rests on very different grounds. He has neither Romney's sentiment' nor Gainsborough's charm his achievement is largely wanting in that purely personal' quality so dear to the British mind, and is touched with scarce a vestige of that imperfect, or 'wholly individual', craftsmanship so near to the British heart. It is sane in ambition, severe in style, distinguished in method, nothing if not artistic in effect. For all such qualities as 'latent poetry of suggestiveness', as 'exquisite yet lofty subjee tivity', as passionate yet almost morbific subtlety of vision and realization - for them and their like, I say, you must look elsewhere than here. He was content to be a painter, and to invest his work with the unpopular yet sovereign element of style. Fashion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Portraits (Classic Reprint) by : Frank Harris
Download or read book Contemporary Portraits (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Harris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contemporary Portraits Theartistmustdivinethesecretnatureand even the unconscions tendencies of his subject and bring them to expression or his work will not endure, and it is love alone that divines, lineandthrowintoreliefthevirtuouspowers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Gallery of Portraits, Vol. 1 by : Arthur Thomas Malkin
Download or read book The Gallery of Portraits, Vol. 1 written by Arthur Thomas Malkin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gallery of Portraits, Vol. 1: With Memoirs Redfern, Eul]. Honorary Secs. Bonn - Leonard Homer, Eu] f.r S L 8: E Brutal - J. N Sandere, t Chairman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) by :
Download or read book The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings, Vol. 4 The two first heads have been wrought from a single block of marble. That which interests the reader to the left is the portrait of Epicurus, chief of a sect of philoso phers, no less famous among the ancients than the moderns. They pretended that happiness consisted in voluptuousness but this pleasure, in their opinion, was no other thing than virtue. We are not to reproach them for the eccentricities of some of their sectarista. Epicurus was laborious and frugal. He was born in a village of Attica, in the year 342 B. C. And died at the age of seventy-two, completely worn out by fatigue. He composed a variety of philosophical treatises, the most part of which are lost. It is from his works that Ln cretins collected opinions which he decorated with all the charms of poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Gallery of Portraits, Vol. 5 by : Arthur Thomas Malkin
Download or read book The Gallery of Portraits, Vol. 5 written by Arthur Thomas Malkin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gallery of Portraits, Vol. 5: With Memoirs Considerable obscurity hangs over this portion of Taylor's life: but it appears that in the years 1654-5 he was twice imprisoned, in con sequence of his advocacy of the fallen causes of Episcopacy and Royalty. At some time in 1654 he formed an acquaintance with Evelyn, which proved profitable and honourable to both parties; for the layman, as is evident from his Memoirs and Diary, highly valued and laid to heart the counsels of the man whom be selected as his ghostly father, and to whose poverty he liberally ministered in return out of his own abundance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Gallery of American Portraits (Classic Reprint) by : George Watterston
Download or read book Gallery of American Portraits (Classic Reprint) written by George Watterston and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gallery of American Portraits Several of the following sketches have already appeared in some of the occasional productions of the author, and received the approbation of the public. It has been suggested by his friends, that as some of these sketches merit preservation, and may possibly be useful to the future historian, and that as they are now interspersed in detached volumes, it would be proper to embody them in one small work, and thus united, give them to the public. In yielding to this suggestion, it may be necessary to remark, that a more intimate acquaintance with those whose characters he has endeavored to portray, has enabled him to make some changes, and add some new traits, which will render the sketches more complete. In all these, he has carefully endeavored to avoid the indulgence of any feeling which might warp his judgment or give too rich or too dark a coloring to the picture he presents. He flatters himself that they will be found as correct as such sketches can be made, without entering minutely into the various shades or slight peculiarities of character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
