Memorandum on the Subject of the Earl of Elgin's Pursuits in Greece: Second Edition, CorrectedJohn Murray, Albemarle Street, 1815 - 100 páginas |
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Página 3 - Elgin's embassy might offer should be improved ; and that not only modellers, but architects and draftsmen, should be employed, to rescue from oblivion, with the most accurate detail, whatever specimens of architecture and sculpture in Greece had still escaped the ravages of time, and the barbarism of conquerors. On this suggestion, Lord Elgin proposed to his Majesty's Government, that they should send out English artists of known eminence, capable of collecting this information in the most perfect...
Página 10 - ... fortifications, in which many fragments had been used as so many blocks of stone, and from excavations made on purpose, a greater quantity of original Athenian sculpture, in statues, alti and bassi relievi, capitals, cornices, frizes, and columns, than exists in any other part of Europe.
Página 17 - The greatest care is taken to preserve an equal number of letters in each line ; even monosyllables are separated occasionally into two parts, if the line has had its complement, and the next line then begins with the end of the broken word. The letters range perpendicularly, as well as horizontally, so as to render it impossible to make any interpolation or erasure of the original text without discovery.
Página 30 - Argos, and Corinth, will prove the indubitable claim of the Greeks to the invention and perfection of this art : few of those in the collections of the King of Naples at Portici, or in that of Sir William Hamilton, excel some which Lord Elgin has procured, with respect to the elegance of the form, the fineness of the materials, the delicacy of the execution, or the beauty of the subjects delineated on them : and they are, for the most part, in very high preservation.
Página 39 - Avhat came from the Parthenon, by means of the persons who had been carrying on Lord Elgin's operations at Athens, and who had returned with him to Rome, Canova declared, " That however greatly it was to be lamented that these statues should have suffered so much from time and barbarism, yet it was undeniable, that they...
Página 18 - ... that edifice. These consist, of a capital, assizes of the columns themselves, to shew the exact form of the curve used in channelling ; a Triglyph, and motules from the cornice, and even some of the marble tiles with which the ambulatory was roofed : so that, not only the sculptor may be gratified by studying every specimen of his art, from the colossal statue to the basso-relievo, executed in the golden age of Pericles, by Phidias himself, or under his immediate direction ; but the practical...
Página 4 - B of their time was far beyond his means. When, however, he reached Sicily, on the recommendation of Sir William Hamilton, he was so fortunate as to prevail on Don Tita Lusieri, one of the best general painters in Europe, of great knowledge in the arts, infinite...
Página 29 - Demosthenes, and ^Eschines, delivered their orations, and at the theatre built by Herodes Atticus to the memory of his wife Regilla. The supposed tumuli of Antiope, Euripides, and others, have also been opened ; and from these excavations, and various others in the environs of Athens, has been procured a complete and valuable collection of Greek vases. The colonies sent from Athens, Corinth, &c. into Magna Graecia, Sicily, and Etruria, carried...
Página 54 - Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these emanations of genius at an earlier period of life, the sentiment of their preeminence would have animated all my exertions ; and more character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded all my humble attempts in historical painting'.