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Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy

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In Joshua Reynolds: Personality and criticism of Joshua Reynolds
Reynolds’s Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy (1769–91) is among the most important art criticism of the time. In it he outlined the essence of grandeur in art and suggested the means of achieving it through rigorous academic training and study of the old masters of…
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English literature

In English literature: Johnson’s poetry and prose
…Joshua Reynolds, in his 15 Discourses (delivered to the Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790, but first published collectively in 1797).
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