Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting: Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the PainterGovett, Ernest
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Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting: Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter
Govett, Ernest
Art; Painting
Rembrandt, his imagination compared with his execution, 20;
cause of variation in his work, 21;
his simplicity, 150;
his broad work, 289;
his use of color, 152;
his position in art, 44;
his representation of character, 42;
suggested as impressionist, 41, 290;
compared with the idealists, 43;
his palette-knife pictures, 281;
classification of his portraits, 281
Renaissance (_see_ Italy, Art of)
Repose, in portraiture, 164;
in the representation of Venus, 116
Reynolds, Joshua, his high position in portraiture, 160;
on color, 350;
on the representation of grief, 169;
on the cause of excellence in painting, 282;
on genius in art, 282;
nobility in his portraits, 160;
as a painter of women, 161;
on the work of Raphael, 303;
on Michelangelo, 282;
on the early Italian painters, 280;
on the Venetian painters, 350;
his portraits of actors in character, 224;
his use of the smile, 174
Rodin, A., on the suggestion of movement in sculpture, 249, 351;
on ugliness in art, 317;
his La Vieille Heaulmière, 317;
on Greek ideals, 319
Romans, The ancient, had no separate sacred art, 328
"Romantic Art," its various meanings, 278;
Hegel's period of, 277
Romney, G., the quality of grace in his portraits, 161
Ruskin, J., on the trees of Raphael, 345;
on the ideal of Christ, 319;
on the position of landscape in art, 344;
on the Italian painters of the fourteenth century, 279
Ruysdael, Jacob, his painting of breaking water, 204, 206;
his near-ground work, 203
S
Sacred Art, offers highest scope for the artist, 63;
in Greece, 91;
in Italy, 12
Sadness, as a quality of beauty, 280
Saints, representation of, 104
Sappho, her Ode to Anactoria, and the cause of its beauty, 67;
translation of the Ode, 301;
her Hymn to Aphrodite, 302
Satan, representation of, 178
Satire, works conveying, unsuited to the painter, 224
Schopenhauer, on music as a non-imitative art, 292
Sculpture, its imitative scope, 52;
ideals in, 135;
compared with painting, 135;
importance of simplicity in, 68;
standard of judgment in, 73;
illusion of motion in, 249;
Rodin on the illusion, 351;
in ancient Greece, 106;
in Greek and Roman portraiture, 145;
thirteenth century French, 315
Sea views, illusion of opening distance in, 204;
progressive actions in, 206
Secondary Art, its nature, 85;
in historical work, 220;
in actions drawn from the novelist, 221;
from the written drama, 221;
from the acted drama, 222;
humorous pictures, 224;
in allegorical and symbolical painting, 225 _et seq._
Shakespeare, his imagination, 23;
example of his art, 66;
represents characters above experience, 61
Short story, the, its essentials, 70;
compared with the novel, 69 (_see also_ Fiction)
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