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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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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 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 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 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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