 Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters...  A Record of My Artistic Life - Page 144by John Burley Waring - 1873 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the v muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect beauty...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge .of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
...human figure is not to be found in anyone of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in theGladia« tor, nor in the Apollo; but in that form which is taken...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - Aesthetics - 1812 - 188 pages
...must combine all the characters, which " are beautiful in that species. It cannot con" sist in anv one to the exclusion of the rest ; </ *< no one, therefore, must be predominant, thai a no one may be deficient."* * See Append!^ Note D. Now, from what proceeds this principle of... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo; but in that form...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. ; The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient." —Vol. II. p. 64. Sir Joshua here supposes the distinctions of classes and character to be necessarily... | |
 | Ireland - 1821 - 508 pages
...in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo; but in that form which is taken from them all, and which partakes equally of the activity of...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient." The discourse from which the foregoing extract has been taken, was delivered in the year 1770. Perhaps... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and the muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and the muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is... | |
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