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Masterpieces in ColourVan EyckTHE advent of the Van Eycks is the most important landmark in the history of painting in northern Europe. With them we open an entirely new chapter, for although the value of oil in various inferior processes of the art had been ascertained...
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The great masters in painting and sculpturePintoricchioPINTORICCHIO is not one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance, and perhaps no painter who has left us such a mass of work, and work of such interest, has attracted so little criticism and inquiry. From the time of Vasaris slighting...
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Masterpieces in ColourDürerI would chat with you, reader, for a while; would discuss Drer, whom I have known and loved for many a year, and whom I want to make beloved by you also. Here I sit, pen in hand, and would begin. Let us venture...
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Masterpieces in ColourTurner: Five letters and a postscript.This beautiful sea piece is essentially Turnerthe result of his personal observation. It was painted after he had freed himself from the desire to rival and outvie his predecessors, and before he became obsessed by the passion to paint...
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Masterpieces in ColourCorotThe Danse des Bergers is the living memorial of a happy moodone of those moments of lyrical ecstasy of which Corot experienced so many, and which, by his genius, those less fortunate are enabled to share. The feeling in the drawing and painting of...
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Masterpieces in ColourMillaisThis is one of the pictures which Millais always reckoned among the greatest of all his successes, and that it has many notable qualities which justify his preference can certainly not be denied. It is wonderful in its earnest and thoughtful realism, and it...
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An AutobiographyAn AutobiographyTHE memoirs of a great artist must inevitably evoke the interest and appreciation of the initiated. But this book makes a wider appeal, written as it is by a woman whose career, apart from her art, has been varied and adventurous, who has...
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Masterpieces in ColourWatteauThe attribution to Watteau of this pretty pastoral has been questioned. It is thus described in the Louvre catalogue, "At the foot of a knoll, a shepherdess, with a yellow dress and a red bodice, sits turning to the left, to listen to a...
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Masterpieces in ColourBurne-JonesApart from its technical beauty and its charm of design, this picture has a special interest as the only contribution which the artist ever made to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy. It was shown at Burlington House in 1886, and was painted purposely,...
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Masterpieces in ColourRubensThe name of Peter Paul Rubens is written so large in the history of European art, that all the efforts of detractors have failed to stem the tide of appreciation that flows towards it. Rubens [Pg 12]was a great master in nearly every pictorial...
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The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6)The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) - From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes)*** With regard to the Abbreviations of words adopted in the above Indexes, that of...
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Masterpieces in ColourReynoldsThis picture is perhaps one of Sir Joshua Reynolds most beautiful compositions. The flesh painting is very fine and the handling of the dress remarkably free, its delicate colouring being in beautiful harmony with the surroundings. The painter gave us a portrait of the...
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Masterpieces in ColourWhistlerThis nocturne was bought by the National Collections Fund from the Whistler Memorial Exhibition. It was one of the canvases brought forward during the cross-examination of the artist in the Whistler v. Ruskin trial. At the time when Rossetti and his circle were foregathering...
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Masterpieces in ColourBelliniFrom the standpoint of the biographer, it is to be regretted that more of the great Italian artists of the fifteenth century were not associated with the Church. In the days of the most interesting activity of painters and sculptors, the capacity to write[10]...
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Elementary ColorElementary ColorThe movement in educational reform at present is in the direction of unification. It is held that in framing the programme for any grade the interest not only of the next higher but of all higher grades must be considered. This is done...
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Illustrated biographies of the great artistsTurnerTHE late Mr. Thornbury lost such an opportunity of writing a worthy biography of Turner as will never occur again. How he dealt with the valuable materials which he collected is well known to all who have had to test the accuracy of his...
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The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3)The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3)In this Lecture I shall submit to your consideration some criticisms on the prevailing method of treating the History of our Art; attended by a series of observations on the magnificent picture of the...
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Lessons in the Art of IlluminatingLessons in the Art of Illuminating - A Series of Examples selected from Works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington Museum. With Practical Instructions, and a Sketch of the History of the ArtThe Ornamental Border and Initial of the...
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The Letters of a Post-ImpressionistThe Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van GoghVINCENT VAN GOGH was born in 1853, at Groot-Zundert, a village in the province of North Brabant in Holland, and was the son of a clergyman. Like his two uncles, he...
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Titian: a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painterTitian: a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painterThe Flora, the Bella and the Philip II. show the painters most characteristic work in portraiture, while the Pesaro Madonna, the Assumption, and the Christ of the Tribute Money stand for his highest...
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