Sketches of Great PaintersStewart and Kidd Company, 1915 - 263 pages |
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... give . It was about this time that he painted the " Madonna di Sant ' Antonio , " now in the Pierpont Morgan collection in New York . This picture was purchased by Mr. Morgan for $ 500,000 . It was painted originally for the nuns of St ...
... give . It was about this time that he painted the " Madonna di Sant ' Antonio , " now in the Pierpont Morgan collection in New York . This picture was purchased by Mr. Morgan for $ 500,000 . It was painted originally for the nuns of St ...
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... give no idea of the wonderful purity and harmony of the coloring . It is a per- fect picture of the calm content and joy of mother- hood and the confiding love of childhood . The almost supernatural seriousness of the mother and the ...
... give no idea of the wonderful purity and harmony of the coloring . It is a per- fect picture of the calm content and joy of mother- hood and the confiding love of childhood . The almost supernatural seriousness of the mother and the ...
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... gives me great help , but not as much as I could wish . As for the Galatea , I should hold myself to be a great master if there were in it half the good things your lord- ship writes of . But I can see in your expressions the love you ...
... gives me great help , but not as much as I could wish . As for the Galatea , I should hold myself to be a great master if there were in it half the good things your lord- ship writes of . But I can see in your expressions the love you ...
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... give an opinion and explanation . Mich- elangelo savagely retorted , " Thou who madest a model of a horse to cast it in bronze , and finding thy- self unable to do so , wert forced with shame to give up the attempt , explain it thyself ...
... give an opinion and explanation . Mich- elangelo savagely retorted , " Thou who madest a model of a horse to cast it in bronze , and finding thy- self unable to do so , wert forced with shame to give up the attempt , explain it thyself ...
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... The captain gives his orders to the lieutenant ; be- hind them the drum beats the alarm , and the ensign unfurls his standard . Every man snatches up a weapon of some sort , musket , lance , or 64 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS.
... The captain gives his orders to the lieutenant ; be- hind them the drum beats the alarm , and the ensign unfurls his standard . Every man snatches up a weapon of some sort , musket , lance , or 64 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS.
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Page 148 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 187 - And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 192 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart.
Page 96 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Page 29 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Page 94 - Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Page 54 - Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions.
Page 176 - Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall Of earthly art is vain ; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed, What are they when the double death is nigh ? The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest My soul, that turns to His great love on high, Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.
Page 244 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be...