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Excerpt from Painting Popularly Explained With Historical Sketches of the Progress of the ArtAlthough a degree of imitation is necessary in a work of art for the conveyance of thought, the quantity or exactitude of imitation in a picture forms by no means a measure of the amount of thought or emotion which it may awaken, apart from the simple ideas which the mind receives through the painted resemblance of natural objects. Indeed, literal imi ...
Excerpt from Painting Popularly Explained: Including Fresco, Water-Glass, Oil, Tempera, Mosaic, Encaustic, Water-Colour, Miniature, Painting on Ivory, Vellum, Pottery, Porcelain, Enamel, Glass, &C., , With Historical Sketches of the Progress of the ArtWe submit that even this enjoyment may sometimes be heightened in degree, other gratification assuredly derived, and the power of appreciating the relative merits and com.About the PublisherForgo...
Excerpt from Painting Popularly Explained: Including Fresco, Water-Glass, Oil, Tempera, Mosaic, Encaustic, Water-Colour, Miniature, Painting on Ivory, Vellum, Pottery, Porcelain, Enamel, Glass, &C., , With Historical Sketches of the Progress of the ArtWe submit that even this enjoyment may sometimes be heightened in degree, other gratification assuredly derived, and the power of appreciating the relative merits and com.About the PublisherForgo...
Excerpt from Painting Popularly Explained With Historical Sketches of the Progress of the ArtAlthough a degree of imitation is necessary in a work of art for the conveyance of thought, the quantity or exactitude of imitation in a picture forms by no means a measure of the amount of thought or emotion which it may awaken, apart from the simple ideas which the mind receives through the painted resemblance of natural objects. Indeed, literal imi ...
