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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: rative work was now made?for the first, and, I fear, the last time.] As early as the general meeting of the Academy in August this year, a scheme which had Ijeen under the consideration of the members of the Academy for decorating the chapel of Old Somerset House with pictures was taken up by Reynolds on a bolder plan. He proposed that an attempt should be made to introduce pictures into St. Paul's Cathedral. This suggestion was received with acclamation, and he was empowered to apply to the Dean and Chapter for their approval of a scheme for which there seemed to be every prospect of success, as Dr. Newton, Bishop of Bristol, was Dean of St. Paul's, and was known to be an advocate for the encouragement of Art by the Church. Sir Joshua saw the Dean on the 21st, and obtained his formal approval. [The scheme had, indeed, been suggested between him and the President, at a dinner at the Deanery, where West was present. The Dean having referred to Wren's designs for filling up blank spaces on the walls of his basilica, the painters were struck with the idea of filling them up with works by Academicians. West offered to paint Moses delivering the Laws; Sir Joshua the Nativity. When the Academy afterwards took up the scheme, besides the President and AYest, Barry, Dance, Cipriani, and Angelica Kauffmann were selected on the part of the Academy. The Society of Arts joined in the scheme, and added four artists to the Academicians. All promised well.] The King, on being applied to by Newton, gave a willing consent; so did the Archbishop of York, and the Lord Mayor: all the guardians of the Cathedral, in short, but one?the Bishop of London.Unluckily, Bishop Newton went to that prelate last, instead of first. Whether he was offended by not being consulted at starting, or really feared that P...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217011242
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217011241
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 322 gr


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