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Masterpieces in ColourFilippo LippiIn this earliest known picture by Filippo Lippi, the painter is still entirely under the influence of his youthful training. It is just like an illuminated miniature on a large scale, and is lacking in unity of design or pictorial vision. Note the...
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Masterpieces in ColourChardinThis "Still-Life," which is among the fine array of Chardin's pictures at the Louvre, affords a striking illustration of the master's supreme skill in rendering the surface qualities, textures, plastic properties, and mutual colour relations of the most varied objects and substances, such as...
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Masterpieces in ColourCarlo DolciIF, in dealing with the life and work of Carlo Dolci, a writer sets down an apology by way of preface, it is in recognition of the fact that the art form of this painter, for all that it is serious and beautiful,[12]...
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Masterpieces in ColourFra AngelicoROUND the peaceful life and delicately imaginative work of Guido da Vicchio, the Florentine artist who is known to the world at large as Fra Angelico, critics and laymen continue to wage a fierce controversy.[12] While few are heard to deny the merit...
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Masterpieces in ColourPuvis de ChavannesGLORY does not dispense her favours to the deserving with an equal bounty. Painters as well as authors often suffer from the caprices of the inconstant goddess. While there are some who, guided by her benevolent hand, attain the[12] pinnacle of fortune...
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Masterpieces in ColourHogarthThis brilliant, impressionist sketch, done long before the era of impressionism, is something of a marvel. The Shrimp Girl cries out from Hogarths works, a tour de force, done without premeditation, in some happy hour when the unerring hand unerringly followed the quick eye....
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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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