The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds - Couverture souple

Cunningham, Allan; Reynolds, Dr Joshua

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1143226321 ISBN 13 : 9781143226328

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Joshua, the son of the Rererend Samuel Reynolds, and Theophila Potter, his wife, was the tenth of eleven children, five of whom died in infancy. He was bom at Plympton, in Devonshire, on Thursday, July 16th, 1723, three months before the death of Sir Ck)dfrey Eneller; thus perpetuating, say some of his biographers, the hereditary descent of art This descent of talent had a better security for continuation than the life of a new-bom child. Wilson was ten years old, and Hogarth had already distinguished himself. The admirers and disciples of Sir Joshua imagined that the mantle of art remained suspended in the air, from the day of Kneller sascent, and refrained from descending upon other shoulders till their favorite rose to manhood and eminence. The pride of Reynolds would have resented in life this compliment from his friends he who shared in imagination the imperial robe of Michael A ngelo, would have scorned the meaner mantle of Godfrey Kne Uer. Few men of genius are allowed to be bom or baptized in an ordinary way; some commotion in nature must mark the hour of their birth, some strange interposition must determine their name the like happened to young Reynolds.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1143226321
• ISBN 13: 9781143226328
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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