Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal AcademySmith, Elder, and Company, 65. Cornhill., 1855 |
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Page 46 - ... else. And what a relief it is, for any wholesome human sight, after sickening itself among the blank horrors of dirt, ditch-water, and malaria, which the imitators of the French schools have begrimed our various exhibition walls with, to find once more a bit of blue in the sky, and a glow of brown in the coppice, and to see that Hoppers in Kent can enjoy their scarlet and purple — like empresses and emperors ! 1199.
Page 57 - Thompson's : * partly because I have always said that no woman could paint ; 2 and, secondly, because I thought what the public made such a fuss about must be good for nothing. But it is amazon's work this; no doubt of it, and the first fine Pre-Raphaelite * picture of battle we have had ; — profoundly interesting, and showing all manner of illustrative and realistic faculty.
Page 8 - The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome ; chaste as the icicle, That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple : Dear Valeria ! Vol.
Page 26 - And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab : and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
Page 17 - Saying moreover, Isabel, my sweet ! Red whortle-berries droop above my head, And a large flint-stone weighs upon my feet ; Around me beeches and high chestnuts shed Their leaves and prickly nuts ; a sheep-fold bleat Comes from beyond the river to my bed : Go, shed one tear upon my heather-bloom, And it shall comfort me within the tomb.
Page 28 - Faultless and wonderful : a most noble example of the great school. Examine it well inch by inch : it is one of the pictures which intend, and accomplish, the entire placing before your eyes of an actual fact — and that a solemn one.
Page 36 - Exquisite in every way ; lovely in colour, most subtle in the quivering expression of the lips, and sweetness of the tender face, shaken, like a leaf by winds upon its dew, and hesitating back into peace. A second very disgraceful piece of bad placing* — the thrusting this picture thus aside ! 583.
Page 28 - This is a very important and very beautiful picture. It has both sincerity and grace, and is painted on the purest principles of Venetian art — that is to say, on the calm acceptance of the whole of nature, small and great, as, in its place, deserving of faithful rendering. The great secret of the Venetians was their simplicity. They were great colourists...
Page 26 - I see with consternation that it was not the Parnassian rock which Mr. Millais was ascending, but the Tarpeian. The change in his manner, from the years of "Ophelia" and "Mariana" to 1857, is not merely Fall — it is Catastrophe; not merely a loss of power, but a reversal of principle...