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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. 1860. Excerpt: ... IX. CONCLUSION. But let not modern art be disregarded while we give utterance to our admiration of the works of the Greek chisel. We may, like the Rhodian ambassadors before the Roman senate on the occasion of the defeat of Antiochus, declare, that we make bold to contend with the ancients in pious strife after every good art and virtue. If Polygnotus painted gratuitously the Poikile at Athens and the Lesche at Delphi, --Reynolds and West offered to adorn St. Paul's, while Hogarth painted the Foundling, and Barry the Adelphi. In the preceding remarks it has been the object not so much to point out some of those particulars in which modern art is inferior to ancient, as to do justice to the excellences of ancient art, "Ingeniorum monumenta quae seculis probantur,"--(Quint. iii. 9, ) and explain as far as possible the causes which led to that success. Far be it to attempt to attach that measure of inferiority which may be found on comparison, to our own country, and to our own age.1 On the contrary, candour must lead us to acknowledge that sculpture, with the sister arts,2 is rising, both in this country and on the continent.3 One thing, however, we cannot be too careful lest we fall into--a pedantry of art, which leads us to praise Greek art merely because it is Greek, and to despise modern art because it is not Greek. One 1 The President of the Boyal Academy, "West, says, --" I know of no people, since the Greeks, who have indicated a higher promise to equal them, than the British nation. But this can only take place when the whole mass of the people shall be awake to the usefulness of the arts, and to the splendour which they confer." 2 What has been said of sculpture, in comparing modern art with ancient, may be said of any of the other arts; although both...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235627125
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235627128
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr

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