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Chantilly in History and ArtChantilly in History and ArtMy first visit to Chantilly was in April 1904, when the Exhibition of the French Primitives at the Pavillon Marsan, following close on that at Bruges, raised interest and comment far outside the boundaries of France. I visited the Muse...
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Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5)Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5)The disproportion, between the length of time occupied in the preparation of this volume, and the slightness of apparent result, is so vexatious to me, and must seem so strange to the reader, that he will perhaps bear with...
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The Mentor: American Miniature Painters, January 15, 1917, Serial No. 123The Mentor: American Miniature Painters, January 15, 1917, Serial No. 123We are close to realizing the greatest joys to be found in this workaday world when we accept art as a vital part and not a thing separate and distinct from our daily lives....
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The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4)The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4) - Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX centuryThe mannerism of English historical painting: F. C. Horsley, J. R. Herbert, J. Tenniel, E. M. Ward, Eastlake, Edward Armitage, and others.The...
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Masterpieces in ColourRaphaelBetter than any other picture by Raphael, this important altar-piece shows the precociousness of Raphael's genius, for it was painted at Perugia in 1506, when the master had scarcely passed into the twenty-third year of his life. He had then just returned from Florence,...
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Masterpieces in ColourTitianThis portrait of the Duchess of Urbino from the Uffizi must not be confused with the portrait of the Duchess in the Pitti Palace. The sitter here is Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, and the portrait was painted somewhere between the years 1536 and...
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The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4)The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) - Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX centuryThe general alienation of painting from the interests of life during the first half of the nineteenth century.The draughtsmen and caricaturists the...
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The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) - Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX centuryOld and new histories of art.Seeming restlessness of the nineteenth century.To recognise style in modern art, and to prove the logic of...
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Masterpieces in ColourHolbein Hans Holbein the younger is perhaps the most outstanding figure in the history of German art. In the eyes of some he may yield place to his great contemporary Albert Drer, but it is impossible [12] to deny that for all his indisputable...
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Masterpieces in ColourRossettiAbout the middle of the nineteenth century Europe woke to the fact that Art, despite its pretention, had lost all touch with tradition and, like a blind man deprived of his staff, stood fumbling for direction. The necessary point dappui[10] took shape in a...
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Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Note-bookRodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Note-bookOf Auguste Rodin one thing may be said without fear of contradiction: among his contemporaries to-day he is preminently the master. Born at Paris, 1840,the natal year of his friends, Claude Monet and Zolain...
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Masterpieces in ColourMeissonierONE dayit was neither in war time nor during manoeuvreson a July morning, with the sun shining radiantly, a squadron of cuirassiers passed at full gallop across a magnificent field of ripening grain, in the neighbourhood of Poissy, although on every side there were...
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Masterpieces in ColourMilletAMONGST the great painters of peasant life the name of Jean Franois Millet stands out prominently. A long interval elapsed betwixt the death of Adrian van Ostade and the birth of Millet, unbroken by a single name, with the solitary exception of Chardin, of...
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Masterpieces in ColourVan Dyck Certainly the finest portrait of Charles I. in existence. It shows Van Dyck in his most attractive aspect as a painter of the aristocracy. Executed before the marked decline in his technical powers, which marred, from an artistic standpoint, the later pictures...
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Masters in Art, Part 32, v. 3, August, 1902: GiottoMasters in Art, Part 32, v. 3, August, 1902: Giotto - A Series of Illustrated MonographsREMITTANCES should be made by postal or express money-order, registered letter, or, in amounts up to $1.00, in one or two cent stamps. On personal checks drawn on banks...
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Engraving: Its Origin, Processes, and HistoryEngraving: Its Origin, Processes, and HistoryThe author of "La Gravure," of which work the present volume is a translation, has devoted so little attention to English Engraving, that it has been thought advisable to supplement his somewhat inadequate remarks by a special chapter dealing...
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The Eagle's NestThe Eagle's Nest - Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872The following Lectures have been written, not with less care, but with less pains, than any in former courses, because no...
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Masterpieces in ColourMemlincALREADY, before the advent of the House of Burgundy, Bruges had attained the height of her prosperity. From a small military outpost of civilisation, built to stay the advance of the ravaging Northmen, she had developed through four short centuries of a strenuous existence...
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Masterpieces in ColourFromentinIt is hardly necessary to call attention to the art with which Fromentin has succeeded in arranging his masses of colour so as to secure a harmonious distribution of light. Could anything be more perfectly balanced, in point of composition, than this alluring canvas?...
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Les Peintres ProvençauxLes Peintres Provençaux - Loubon et son temps - Aiguier - Ricard - Monticelli - Paul GuigouIl faut cultiver notre jardin. (Voltaire.) A l'Exposition centennale de l'art franais, les peintres provenaux remportaient, l'an dernier, des avantages marqus, mme triomphaux, dans la glorieuse bataille artistique...
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