Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: Joshua ReynoldsThe Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsDiscourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: J. REYNOLDSThe Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: Joshua ReynoldsSir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses
Author: Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230398587
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distribution of the Prizes, December 10, 1776. THE REALITY OF A STANDARD OF TASTE, AS WELL AS OF CORPORAL BEAUTY.-- BESIDES THIS IMMEDIATE TRUTH, THERE ARE SECONDARY TRUTHS, WHICH ARE VARIABLE J BOTH REQUIRING THE ATTENTION OF THE ARTIST, IN PROPORTION TO THEIR STABILITY OR THEIR INFLUENCE. It has been my uniform endeavor, since I first addressed you from this place, to impress you strongly with one ruling idea. I wished you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommended is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind. As our art is not a divine gift, so neither is it a mechanical trade. Its foundations are laid in solid science; and practice, though essential to perfection, can never attain that to which it aims, unless it works under the direction of principle. Some writers upon art carry this point too far, and suppose that such a body of universal and profound learning is requisite that the very enumeration of its kinds is enough to frighten a beginner. Vitruvius, after going through the many accomplishments of nature, and the many acquirements of learning necessary to an architect, proceeds with great gravity to assert that he ought to be well skilled in the civil law, that he may not be cheated in the title of the ground he builds on. But without such exaggeration, we may go so far as to assert that a painter stands in need ot more knowledge than is to be picked off his pallet, or collected by looking on his model, whether it be in life or in picture. He can never be a great artist who is grossly illiterate. Every man whose business is description ought to be tolerably conversant with the...