Pictorial Shakspeare was first published, there can be little doubt but that this National Edition will meet with a sale commensurate with the taste and enterprise of its editor and publisher, Mr. Knight.
These with their numerous subdivisions supply an infinite number of subjects for pictorial treatment.
How Pictorial Crystals are Produced and Exhibited.
The idea at the root of it scarcely brooks indication, so inevitable had it surely become, in all the conditions, that a young Englishwoman in some such predicament should figure as the happy pictorial thought.
Indeed, the pictorial groups on the Copan statues seem to be the true hieroglyphic characters; while the Palenque inscriptions show the abbreviated hieratic writing.
Consider the great pictorial humorists, whether dead or living, whose names are familiar in the mouth as household words.
The humour of his drawings is inherent, not extraneous; his pictorial jests are self-contained, so to speak, and the printed legend beneath them is incidental only.
Ignoring, for a moment, the skill and charm of his technique, one feels it to be an accident only that his vehicle of expression is pictorial and not literary.
One reason for the popularity and usefulness of the various pictorial works was the peculiar ability of a wood or steel engraving to convey precise mechanical information, an advantage not possessed by modern halftone processes.
Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary,[97] a classic of detailed pictorial information compiled by a U.
I loved his ladies full of grace, And on their beauties fondly dwelt:-- My first pictorial love could trace Her pedigree to Park and Skelt.
In fact, the avalanche might be described as only a pictorial epilog.
Yet the stern Scandinavian did not disdain to employ an avalanche in 'When We Dead Awaken,' and to introduce a highly pictorial shawl dance for the heroine of his 'Doll's House.
I need offer only a very few specimens of the purely pictorial poetry.
The common art-principle of the class of poems under present consideration is identical with the common principle of Japanese pictorial illustration.
But there are thousands ofpictorial poems that do not; and these would seem mere insipidities to a reader ignorant of their true purpose.
The pictorial commentary upon this text is appended, together with a view representing passengers refreshed by being overturned into a wayside pond.
I can see quite clearly now that the artist of this affair obtained his ideas from the pictorial diplomas of the Ancient Order of Foresters; but, at the time, I thought it a very fine painting.
Imitations of it will soon appear, no doubt: but they cannot include the two Pictorial Surprises, which are copyright.
Like all Giotto's genuine work, they are eloquent in their pictorial simplicity of diction; there are no useless crowds of spectators, as in the later work of Ghirlandaio and his contemporaries.
It is the pictorial equivalent of Bernard's most ardent sermons on the Assumption of Mary and of the mystic musings of John of Damascus.
Andrea's work is more pictorial in treatment than Luca's, has less vigour and even at times a perceptible trace of sentimentality; but in sheer beauty his very best creations do not yield to those of his great master and uncle.
But realistic degeneration would equally take place in all cases in which pictorial representations came to be employed for other purposes than those for which they were originally designed, as in the case of ornamental designs.
In thePictorial Bible an illustration is given from the Sassanian sculptures at Takht-i-Bostan of several of these round vessels, probably of wicker, covered with skins.
After this general survey of his argument, he entered into details and illustrated the second division of his lecture by the use of pictorial charts.
The shrubbery, flowers and plants, as well as the works of sculpture and pictorial art, all appeared as if angel fingers had been employed in their production and arrangement.
Every number will contain numerous Pictorial Illustrations, accurate Plates of the Fashions, a copious Chronicle of Current Events, and impartial Notices of the important Books of the Month.
If as a pictorial achievement it cannot rank with the San Niccolò and the Pesaro altar-pieces, it presents some special points of interest which make it easily distinguishable from these.
Boccaccio was a great painter of female beauty and idyllic landscape; but he had not the pictorial faculty in a wider sense.
Valor disrobing him and taking him into her arms and crying Queste carni m'ai offerte would have made a finepictorial allegory.
They are three studies in pictorial poetry, transparent, limpid, of incomparable freshness.
Throughout the sixteenth century, as we have seen, these court representations grew in complexity of pictorial detail, while the importance of the development of a medium for individual expression sank further and further out of notice.
How intricate and yet pictorial his style can become may be seen in these four measures from Act I, scene second, which contain words uttered by Lelio.
A single setting sufficed for the pictorial investiture of the action.
The accounts of the writers of the latter part of the fifteenth and all of the sixteenth centuries are prolific in testimony as to the splendor of the pictorial elements in the festal entertainments of courts and pontiffs.
Long lounges lay carelessly disposed, whose fine damask was interwoven, like the Gobelin tapestry, with pictorial tales of tilt and tourney.
By way of a pictorial mainsail to one of these ships, a map was hung against it, representing in faded colors the flags of all nations.
The pupil now draws the same or similar subjects from nature, acquainting himself with their form and character; then composes them in decorative or pictorial panels--an art-use of representative drawing as well as exercise in appreciation.
Anning Bell and other artists have boldly carried them into pictorialwork in the illustration of children's books.
Great architects and designers were not the only ones to use this simple line-idea; the masters of pictorial art have based upon it some of their best work; (opposite page).
In pictorial art the vignette, in architecture the capital, are examples of the transition principle.
In addition to original composition, the student should copy from masterpieces of design and pictorial art, translating them into three values.
In a mural painting extreme roundness is a fatal defect, as illustrated in the Pantheon at Paris, where Puvis de Chavannes and his contemporaries have put pictorial designs upon the walls.
The reading of the Scriptures in the English tongue, and the sound of the chant, affected me deeply, in contrast with the pictorial and dramatic effects of Romanism in continental churches.
