 | Patricia Johnston - 2006 - 332 pages
...imitation with the Dutch school. For him, these modes were mutually exclusive: "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... | |
 | Ruth Bernard Yeazell - 2008 - 294 pages
...letter to the Idler (1759) to classify the Italians and the Dutch in these terms: 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... | |
 | 1922 - 710 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*0 The opposition of the invariable... | |
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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... 
