Let us, however, still advance one step farther, and observe the imaginative power deprived of all aid from chiaroscuro, color, or any other means of
concealing the frame-work of its thoughts. oil painting for sale
It was said by Michael Angelo that "non ha l'ottimo scultore alcun concetto,
Ch'un marmo solo in se non circoscriva," a sentence which, though in the
immediate sense intended by the writer it may remind us a little of the
indignation of Boileau's Pluto, "Il s'ensuit de la que tout ce qui se peut dire
de beau, est dans les dictionnaires,—il n'y a que les paroles qui sont
transposées," yet is valuable, because it shows us that Michael Angelo held the
imagination to be entirely expressible in rock, and therefore altogether
independent, in its own nature, of those aids of color and shade by which it is
recommended in Tintoret, though the sphere of its operation is of course by
these incalculably extended. But the presence of the imagination may be rendered
in marble as deep, thrilling, and awful as in painting, so that the sculptor
seek for the soul and govern the body thereby. where to buy oil paintings
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