The Works of Anthony Raphael Mengs; Tr. from the Italian - Softcover

Mengs, Anton Raphael

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ISBN 10: 1150960841 ISBN 13: 9781150960840

Verlag: General Books LLC, 2012

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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. 1796. Excerpt: ... CHAP. I. OF THE TASTE OF THE ANCIENTS. HISTORIANS relate many things of the invention of the art of designing, but examining it well, all is such confusion that it appears as if they knew nothing of the matter. I bebelieve it is impossible to know the true origin of the arts, because perhaps they have been invented at different times, and places, as has happened with printing, which invention is claimed by some cities of Europe, at the lame time the Chinese pretend to have known it many ages before. It might have happened, that designing, was invented at tbp fame time in,Greece, J£gypt, and in Tuscany, or that some of these, people had taken it from others; but there, isna necessity for seeking this out, nor would the knowledge of it be of any considerable utility/ For that reason I do not enter into this dispute,.leaving Vol. i. N n' men of erudition to examine if there have been two or more cities of the fame name, and in which of these has been born such an artist as has invented or perfected any point of the art. My object is to speak solely of the study of the ancients, and of the way they have taken to invent painting and sculpture; likewise of their Taste, and of themaixms by which I sigure to myself they have been operated. I incline to believe that design was the sirst found by men, and that painting and sculpture came after; that in the beginning they knew nothing of sculpture, and that painting was begun still later: that the sirst designs were the imitation of the human form: that in sculpture they began by forming earthly sigures; and fhatthis was the sirst step which the artsapproached towards the imitation of nature; because of a thing which one sees at all sides it is more easy to express the form than even in design, which requires m...

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• Verlag: General Books LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1150960841
• ISBN 13: 9781150960840
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136