 | George Morey Miller - 1913 - 176 pages
...Painting (79) and on the True Idea of Beauty (82) contain two principles of importance, the exaltation of "the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal ^ nature"6 (only Johnson's generalized nature), and an attack Utoswell's Life, I. 179. 1 Life, I. 62.... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 482 pages
...representation of which, in Reynolds's eyes, is the aim of the ' grand style ' : The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | 1922 - 766 pages
...it will be recalled, Reynolds prefers the Italian painters to the Dutch, because the Italians attend "only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch ... to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail."4*" The opposition of the invariable... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 pages
...representation of which, in Reynolds's eyes, is the aim of the ' grand style ' : The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1924 - 1016 pages
..."particular" may be clearly shown by the following passage from the Idler papers: The Italian [school] attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | Christopher Sten - 1991 - 372 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as 1 may say of... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 pages
...composition."49 It is what Reynolds, writing in The Idler in 1759, identified as the Italian style, which attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas,...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature: the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the details, I may say, of Nature,... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 pages
...which cannot subsist together, and which destrov the efficacy ol each other. The Italian attends onlv to the invariable, the great, and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I mav sav, ol... | |
 | Cynthia Wall - 2006 - 331 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | Bernard Schweizer - 2006 - 348 pages
...well, such as the letters written for the Idler on his 1750-52 voyage to Italy: The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general ideas...•which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
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I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavouring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that by this choice they selected the... 
