 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...nor silk, satin, or velvet : it is drapery ; it is nothing more. The art of disposing the foldings of the drapery makes a very considerable part of the...judgment to dispose the drapery, so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully follow each other, with such natural negligence as... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...nor silk, satin, or velvet : it is drapery ; it is nothing more. The art of disposing the foldings of drapery makes a very considerable part of the painter's...mechanical operation, to which neither genius nor taste is required; whereas it requires the nicest judgment to dispose the drapery so that the folds shall... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1842 - 318 pages
...nor silk, satin, or velvet: it is drapery; it is nothing more. The art of disposing the foldings of the drapery makes a very considerable part of the...judgment to dispose the drapery, so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully follow each other, with such natural negligence as... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art museums - 1842 - 352 pages
...petticoat, we feel it at once to be bad taste and impropriety. " The art of disposing the foldings of the drapery makes a very considerable part of the...natural is a mechanical operation, to which neither taste nor genius are required; whereas it requires the nicest judgment to dispose the drapery so that... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1845 - 710 pages
...petticoat, we feel it at once to be bad taste and impropriety. " The art of disposing the foldings of the drapery makes a very considerable part of the...natural is a mechanical operation, to which neither taste nor genius are required; whereas it requires the nicest judgment to dispose the drapery so that... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...but to keep his books, or any ambition but to be in time an alderman. Johnson. The Adventurer, No 53. It requires the nicest judgment to dispose the drapery, so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully follow each other, with such natural negligence as... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...nor silk, satin, or velvet : it is drapery ; it is nothing more. The art of disposing the foldings of the drapery makes a very considerable part of the...judgment to dispose the drapery, so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully illlo.v ti^cii oiiior, with such natural negligence... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Aesthetics - 1874 - 456 pages
...Reflexions Critiques sur la Poe'sie ft sur la Peinture. RP d ' The art of disposing the foldings of the drapery makes a very considerable part of the...judgment to dispose the drapery so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully follow each other with such natural negligence as... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Aesthetics - 1874 - 444 pages
...Reflexions Critiques sur la Poe'sie et sur la Peinlure. RP d ' The art of disposing the foldings of the drapery makes a very considerable part of the...judgment to dispose the drapery so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully follow each other with such natural negligence as... | |
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To make it merely natural, is a mechanical operation, to which neither genius nor taste are required ; whereas, it requires the nicest judgment to dispose the drapery, so that the folds shall have an easy communication, and gracefully follow each other,... 
