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This last particular is certainly neither agreeable to nature nor to good taste . The whole portrait thus exhibited is at once gaudy and feeble ; the coloring is luxuriant , but the likeness is faint ; and the impression , to use a ...
This last particular is certainly neither agreeable to nature nor to good taste . The whole portrait thus exhibited is at once gaudy and feeble ; the coloring is luxuriant , but the likeness is faint ; and the impression , to use a ...
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“ Before Chantry appeared , our English sculptors , I must confess , too much neglected nature : they fell into the error of supposing that ideal beauty consisted in absurd personifications and obscure allegories .
“ Before Chantry appeared , our English sculptors , I must confess , too much neglected nature : they fell into the error of supposing that ideal beauty consisted in absurd personifications and obscure allegories .
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It would appear that the ambition of the Pope's sculptor is to restore the lost statues of ancient Greece to their pedestals , instead of viewing nature and revealed religion with the eyes of Raphael .
It would appear that the ambition of the Pope's sculptor is to restore the lost statues of ancient Greece to their pedestals , instead of viewing nature and revealed religion with the eyes of Raphael .
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| Title | The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal Volumes 1215-1247 of Early English newspapers Volumes 384-432 of English literary periodicals |
| Contributors | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths |
| Publisher | R. Griffiths, 1825 |
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