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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 Excerpt: ...Fresnoy, with great propriety, begins and finishes his poem with recommending the study of Nature. This is in reality, the beginning and the end of theory. It is in Nature oniy we can find that beauty which is the great object of our search: it can be found no where else: we can no more form any idea of beauty superior to Nature than we can form an idea of a sixth sense, or any other excellence out of the limits of the human mind. We are forced to confine our conception even of heaven itself and its inhabitants to what we see in this world; even the Supreme Being, if he is represented at all, the Painter has no other way of representing than by reversing the decree of the inspired Lawgiver, and making God after his own image. Nothing can be so unphilosophical as a supposition that we can form any idea of beauty or excellence out of or beyond Na N 2 uire, which is and must be the fountainhead from whence all our ideas must be derived.. This being acknowledged, it must follow, of course, that all the rules which this theory or any other, teaches, can be no more than teaching the art of seeing Nature. The rules of Art are formed on the various works of those who have studied Nature the most successfully: by this advantage, of observing the various manners in which various minds kave contemplated her works, the artist enlarges his own views, and is taught to look for and see what otherwise would have escaped his observation. It is to be remarked, that there are two modes of imitating nature; one of which refers for its truth to the sensations of the mind, and the other to the eye. Some schools, such as the Roman and Florentine, appear to have addressed themselves principally to the mind; others solely to the eye, such as the Venetian in the instances of Paul Ve... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-05-10, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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