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Masterpieces in ColourSargentArtist. Author. VELAZQUEZ. S. L. Bensusan. REYNOLDS. S. L. Bensusan. TURNER. C. Lewis Hind. ROMNEY. C. Lewis Hind. GREUZE. Alys Eyre Macklin. BOTTICELLI. Henry B. Binns. ROSSETTI. Lucien Pissarro. BELLINI. George Hay. FRA ANGELICO. James Mason. REMBRANDT. Josef Israels. LEIGHTON. A. Lys Baldry. RAPHAEL....
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Japanese Colour-Prints and Their DesignersJapanese Colour-Prints and Their DesignersThe leading masters of the Ukiyo school were a group of very great artists. The names of Kiyonaga, Harunobu, Okumura Masanobu, Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige belong in the category of those whose fame is world-wide. The finest of the colour-prints...
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A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and PracticalA Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and PracticalThis text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that your browsers character set or...
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Masterpieces in ColourIngresThis picture of La Vierge lHostie is a repetition, with variations, of another painted by Ingres in 1840 for the Czar Nicholas, in which he had represented on either side of the Virgin the two patron saints of Russia, St. Nicholas and St. Alexander....
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Rodin à l'hotel de Biron et à MeudonRodin à l'hotel de Biron et à MeudonLE XVIIIe sicle ressemble trangement, par ses filous, au sicle que nous avons le malheur dentamer. Cest pourquoi le XVIIIe sicle nous est si cher! A vrai dire, je crois mme que de notre temps les voleurs...
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Masterpieces in ColourTintorettoThis portrait (note the Maltese crosses on the cloak) is a splendid example of Tintoretto's gifts as a portrait painter. It should be remembered that three or four hundred years have helped the restorer's arts to spoil much of the painter's work. Sometime in...
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Masterpieces in ColourLawrenceIn painting this portrait (for which he is said to have received 600) Lawrence was happy in his sitter. The child has good looks and a very intelligent face, but unfortunately he is over-posed. One misses the simplicity, the natural attitude, the spontaneous gesture,...
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Masterpieces in colourGoyaThis personage, who has left no record in history, was one of those high functionaries, half civil and half military, whom the First Republic sent to its armies to supervise the commissary department and also to exercise an espionage over its generals. Goya has...
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Monumental JavaMonumental JavaIf this book needs an apology, it is one to myself for taking the public at large into the confidence of cherished recollections. The writing was a diversion from studies in a quite different direction and letting my pen go, while living again...
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Horse LaughsHorse Laughs To Gilbert Dalziel, Esq., THE EDITOR OF JUDY, THIS LITTLE BOOK OF SKETCHES IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED, AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS KIND PERMISSION FOR ITS PUBLICATION, AND ALSO AS A RECOGNITION OF NUMEROUS FAVOURS RECEIVED FROM HIM ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS. WITH THE...
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GiottoGiottoMy only object in writing these few words of preface is to state plainly the share of originality which belongs to this essay. This is rendered necessary because the subject of the work has occupied the attention of many authors of far greater ability...
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Masterpieces in ColourMantegnaThis beautiful composition, considered one of Mantegnas greatest masterpieces, was painted in 1495-96 in commemoration of the victory won at Fornovo on July 6, 1494, by the Marquis of Mantua as generalissimo of the united Italian forces. It is now in the Louvre, Paris,...
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Masterpieces in ColourBernardino LuiniThis is another admirably painted study of the artists favourite subject. The attitude of the child is most engaging, the painting of the limbs is full of skill, and the background adds considerably to the pictures attractions. It will be noted that Luini...
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Masterpieces in ColourGreuzeThis picture, at first entitled A Father handing over the Marriage-portion of his Daughter, then The Village Bride, is the best of Greuzes subject pictures. The scene is more or less naturally arranged, and informed with the tender homely sentiment inspired by the subject;...
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Masterpieces in ColourFragonardFragonard, like his master Boucher, soon found that the pompous, historical, and religious pictures which the critics demanded of him, pleased no one but the critics. It was a fortunate day for him when he turned his back upon them, and employed his charming...
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Masterpieces in ColourFranz HalsPainted in 1624. Hals called it "Portrait of an Officer," and why, and how, it gained its present title, no one knows. On the back of the canvas we read"Aeta Su 26 Ao. 1624." The "officer" is not laughing; he is merely showing...
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Paul CézannePaul CézanneCeci nest point un LIVRE consacr Czanne et son uvre. Ce sont de simples notes ajouter celles qui ont t publies dj. Le livre crire est toujours celui que lon ncrit pas. Il sera possible de lcrire quand on ne sera plus trangl...
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Masterpieces in colourVeroneseIt has been said of Veronese that he was the most absurd and the most adorable of the great painters. Paradoxical as it sounds, this judgment is perfectly true. Absurd, Veronese undoubtedly was, in his disdain of logic and common sense, in his complete...
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Masterpieces in ColourBoucherEdinburgh is fortunate in possessing this, one of the world-famous examples of Bouchers exquisite portraiture. He painted with rare charm more than once this wonderful woman, the kings morsel, Jeanne Poisson, Madame Lenormant dEtioles, who became the notorious Marquise de Pompadour. He gives us...
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Masterpieces in colourRosa BonheurAccording to artists, the lion is the most difficult of all animals to paint, on account of the prodigious mobility of his physiognomy. Rosa Bonheur was able, thanks to her inimitable art, to catch and reproduce the fugitive facial expressions of the kingly...
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