3985 examples of painters in sentences

He opened his discourse by defending painters against the common charge of being "eccentric in their habits, difficult to deal with, and unbearable; whereas, on the contrary, they are really most humane."

" It seems that on this occasion he also sent Vasari the sonnet composed upon his Lives of the Painters.

It embraced all the painters, architects, and sculptors of Florence in a kind of guild, with privileges, grades, honours, and officers.

During his manhood a few painters endeavoured to add the charm of oil-colouring to his designs, and long before his death the seduction of his mighty mannerism began to exercise a fatal charm for all the schools of Italy.

They were the sculptors, painters, and gardeners of the lagoon.

" These are but a few of the eighty-seven drolleries of the cuts and plates, which have more fun and humour than all the pantomime tricks and changes of our time; they are worth all the fine conceits of all the great painters of any age, and the pun and patter which accompany them are excellent.

The Painters BrigadeWould undertake the painting and whitewashing of our buildings, carts, tinware, &c. 16.

The portraits of the painters are more than usually interesting.

The spirits of the old painters, living still on their canvass, earn from year to year the bread of an indigent and oppressed people.

From the wildness and gloom of his pictures, he might almost be called the Byron of painters.

The hills are covered with luxuriant chesnut and oak trees, of those picturesque forms which they only wear in Italy: one wild dell in particular is much resorted to by painters for the ready-made foregrounds it supplies.

The sons of our rude western clime, brought up without other resources than their own genius and energy, now fairly rival those, who from their cradle upwards have drawn inspiration and ambition from the glorious masterpieces of the old painters and sculptors.

There are now eight or ten of our painters and sculptors in Florence, some of whom, I do not hesitate to say, take the very first rank among living artists.

For rich with spoils of many a conquer'd land, All arts and artists Theseus could command; Who sold for hire, or wrought for better fame; The master-painters, and the carvers came.

We felt that their outstanding characteristic was their imagination, which, turned into the proper channels and given a chance to develop, should produce for the world not only famous painters and poets but also great inventors.

Writing in Modern Painters of man as made in the image of God, he answers the objection which is raised to the idea that all the revelation man has is contained in a being so imperfect.

It is an elaborate chalk drawing, in black and white, with a slight touch of color in the eyes, and was executed in the latter part of 1868 and the early part of 1867, by Mr. Frederick W. Burton, at that time member of the Society of Painters in Watercolors, and now director of the National Gallery in London.

Sniatynski has many grand qualities and is pleasantly conscious of them, which gives him, as painters express it, a certain mannerism.

I meet there often a pianiste, Clara Hilst, a young, good-looking German girl, very tall of figure, whom one of the painters here describes thus: "C'est beau, mais c'est deux fois grandeur naturelle."

Your great artists that the West is to produce will not necessarily be landscape painters or write essays upon nature, will they?"

Living biographies of great painters.

Living biographies of great painters.

Living biographies of great painters, by Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas. Illus.

" The Course of Applied Æsthetics was addressed to painters, sculptors, orators, as well as to musicians, both performers and composers; and was finally extended to literary men.

In the new system, man being at once the artist and object of art, literary men, sculptors and painters proceed from a basis ever to be observed and studied, to rise from the True to the Ideal.

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