 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 640 pages
...what manner this rule is to be understood ; the consequence of which is, that every one takes it in the most obvious sense — that objects are represented...to Poetry : this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best ; for the Painter of genius cannot stoop... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 370 pages
...what manner this rule is to be understood ; the consequence of which is, that everyone takes it in the most obvious sense — that objects are represented...to Poetry: this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best; for the Painter of genius cannot stoop... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 368 pages
...what manner this rule is to be understood ; the consequence of which is, that everyone takes it in the most obvious sense — that objects are represented...to Poetry : this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best ; for the Painter of genius cannot stoop... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - 1908 - 156 pages
...what manner this rule is to be understood ; the consequence of which is that every one takes it in the most obvious sense, that objects are represented...considered as a liberal art and sister to Poetry, this imi10 tation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1918 - 456 pages
...in what manner this rule is to be understood; the consequence of which is, that everyone takes it in the most obvious sense — that objects are represented...to Poetry : this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best; for the Painter of genius cannot stoop... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 1973 - 336 pages
...details. Reynolds had said that the injunction to imitate nature must not be taken literally, else "Painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry."71 Reynolds believed that painters of genius addressed the mind rather than the eye, and that... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...indiscriminate representation of nature that he supports the attack by Joshua Reynolds in Idler 79 on the idea that "objects are represented naturally when they have such relief that they seem real": on the contrary, says Reynolds, "In painting, as in poetry, the highest style has the least of common... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...in what manner this rule is to be understood; the consequence of which is, that everyone takes it in the most obvious sense — that objects are represented...to Poetry; this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best; for the Painter of genius cannot stoop... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 pages
...when they have such relie1 that thev seem reaL It mav appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense ol the rule disputed; but it must be considered, that if the excellency of a Painter consisted onlv in this kind of imitation, Painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal... | |
 | George B. Handley - 2010 - 457 pages
...necessary because, as Reynolds explained, if painting is understood merely as an imitation of nature, "painting must lose its rank and be no longer considered...to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best" (qtd. in Landow 52). The anthropocentrism... | |
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... takes it in the most obvious sense, - that objects are represented naturally, when they have such relief that they seem real. It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed; but it must be considered, that if the excellency... 
