Needlework as ArtSampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886 - 422 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 1
... recorded human knowledge . Some one has said , " Build your house of little bricks . of facts , and you will soon find it inhabited by a body of truth ; and that truth will ally itself with other houses of facts , and in time a well ...
... recorded human knowledge . Some one has said , " Build your house of little bricks . of facts , and you will soon find it inhabited by a body of truth ; and that truth will ally itself with other houses of facts , and in time a well ...
الصفحة 2
... recording heroic deeds and national triumphs . It may be said that ivory carving is sculpture , and illuminated manuscripts and coloured glass windows are painting . But for metal work , whether in iron or gold , a place must be kept ...
... recording heroic deeds and national triumphs . It may be said that ivory carving is sculpture , and illuminated manuscripts and coloured glass windows are painting . But for metal work , whether in iron or gold , a place must be kept ...
الصفحة 19
... recorded survival of this pattern is in woven materials for ecclesiastical purposes in the Middle Ages . Of very early needlework we only find here and there a fragment , illustrated occasionally by passing allusions in poetry and ...
... recorded survival of this pattern is in woven materials for ecclesiastical purposes in the Middle Ages . Of very early needlework we only find here and there a fragment , illustrated occasionally by passing allusions in poetry and ...
الصفحة 42
... recorded and accepted that he has ceased to surprise us ; and the Greeks spent so much genius in making him a graceful creature , that he has become picturesque , if not beautiful . Arabesques and Grotesques have now so long prevailed ...
... recorded and accepted that he has ceased to surprise us ; and the Greeks spent so much genius in making him a graceful creature , that he has become picturesque , if not beautiful . Arabesques and Grotesques have now so long prevailed ...
الصفحة 49
... recorded ; the old embroideries are restored , named , and honoured . What is not beautiful , is credited with being " quaint ” —the quaint " is more easily imitated than the beautiful ; and we have elected this for the characteristic ...
... recorded ; the old embroideries are restored , named , and honoured . What is not beautiful , is credited with being " quaint ” —the quaint " is more easily imitated than the beautiful ; and we have elected this for the characteristic ...
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الصفحة 303 - The king's daughter is all glorious within: Her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
الصفحة 34 - Fair wreaths had the maidens, and the youths daggers of gold hanging from silver baldrics. And now would they run round with deft feet exceeding lightly, as when a potter sitting by his wheel that fitteth between his hands maketh trial of it whether it run : and now anon they would run in lines to meet each other. And a great company stood round the lovely dance in joy...
الصفحة 290 - Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
الصفحة 11 - Her in the palace, at her loom she found; The golden web her own sad story crown'd, The Trojan wars she weaved (herself the prize) And the dire triumphs of her fatal eyes.
الصفحة 406 - ... piscis which encloses Our Saviour. The two compositions representing the Institution of the Eucharist, on the shoulders, are better executed and more original. In each of them, Our Saviour, a stiff but majestic figure, stands behind the altar, on which are deposited a chalice and a paten or basket containing crossed wafers. He gives, in the one case, the cup to S. Paul, in the other the bread to S. Peter, — they do not kneel, but bend reverently to receive it ; five other disciples await their...
الصفحة 34 - Also did the glorious lame god devise a dancing-place like unto that which once in wide Knosos Daidalos wrought for Ariadne of the lovely tresses. There were youths dancing and maidens of costly wooing, their hands upon one another's wrists. Fine linen the maidens had on, and the youths well-woven doublets faintly glistening with oil Fair wreaths had the maidens, and the youths daggers of gold hanging from silver baldrics. And now would they run round with deft feet exceeding lightly, as when...
الصفحة 273 - It is the history of the attainment of self-conscious freedom by the human spirit manifested in the European races. It is no mere political mutation, no new fashion of art, no restoration of classical standards of taste. The arts and the inventions, the knowledge and the books which suddenly became vital at the time of the Renaissance, had long lain neglected on the shores of the dead sea which we call the Middle Ages.
الصفحة 405 - It is a large robe of stiff brocade, falling in broad and unbroken folds in front and behind, broad and deep enough for the Goliath-like stature and the Herculean chest of Charlemagne himself. On the breast the Saviour is represented in glory ; on the back, the Transfiguration ; and on the two shoulders, Christ administering the Eucharist to the apostles. In each of these last compositions our Saviour, a stiff but...
الصفحة 261 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
الصفحة 11 - Here, as the queen revolved with careful eyes The various textures and the various dyes, She chose a veil that shone superior far, And glow'd refulgent as the morning star.