The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Other Collections of Philadelphia: Including the Pennsylvania Museum, the Wilstach Collection, and the Collections of Independence Hall and the Historical Society of PennsylvaniaL.C. Page, 1911 - 383 páginas |
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Página 53 - And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 5 - To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the United States of America, by introducing correct and elegant copies from works of the first Masters in Sculpture and Painting...
Página 59 - Often I have found a Portrait superior in real instruction to half a dozen written ' Biographies, ' as Biographies are written; or, rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was a small lighted candle by which the Biographies could for the first time be read, and some human interpretation be made of them.
Página 334 - There is a motion in his figures that is inconceivable. They seem rather to draw the ship after them than to be impelled by the vessel.
Página 55 - He began to sink, and though still to be found at his easel, his hand had lost its early alacrity. It was evident that all this was to cease soon ; that he was suffering a slow, and a general, and easy decay. The venerable old man sat in his study among his favourite pictures, a breathing image of piety and contentment, awaiting calmly the hour of his dissolution. Without any fixed complaint, his mental...
Página 16 - ... forming an exception to the severe rights of warfare, and as entitled to favor and protection. They are considered not as the peculium of this or of that nation, but as the property of mankind at large, and as belonging to the common interests of the whole species." And he added that there had been "innumerable cases of the mutual exercise of this courtesy between nations in former wars.
Página 3 - I particularly recollect. Many of his pictures are scattered about in Virginia, where he went occasionally to paint portraits. . . . PS He brought with him a plaster cast of the Venus, which was kept shut up in a case, and only shown to persons who particularly wished to see it, as the manners of our country at that time would not tolerate the public exhibition of such a figure.
Página v - The scope of the present volume Is limited to the more important of the public collections of Philadelphia, with particular stress upon the historic portraits, in which they are extremely rich. It aims to give some idea of the artistic material in the city, produced by that galaxy of resident artists, whose presence, fostered by the court of Washington, caused Philadelphia, in her early days, to be looked upon as the Athens of America.
Página 220 - February, 1876, for the purpose, as stated in its charter, of establishing " for the State of Pennsylvania, in the city of Philadelphia, a museum of art in all its branches and technical applications, and with a special view to the development of the art industries of the State ; to provide instruction in drawing, painting, modeling, designing, etc., through practical schools, special libraries, lectures and otherwise.
Página 59 - Portrait-Galleries far transcend in worth all other kinds of National Collections of Pictures whatever; that in fact they ought to exist (for many reasons, of all degrees of weight) in every country, as among the most popular and cherished National Possessions...