Wonders of European ArtC. Scribner, 1885 - 335 páginas |
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Página 168 - It is to be regretted that this picture has not its usual pendent, the heroic Henrietta Maria of France, whose funeral oration was pronounced by Bossuet. Afterwards come the three children of Charles and Henrietta Maria, all celebrated, all crowned after their exile — Charles II., fames II., and Mary, wife of William of Orange, whose son became William III.
Página 149 - ... of all the numerous works of Rubens, is in the Cathedral of Antwerp. In looking at this masterpiece we must beware of expecting too much, for imagination is apt to play us such tricks that we are seldom satisfied with a first view, even of the Alps or the ocean. It cannot be seen very well; it is hung rather too high, and the way in which the light falls on it prevents us from seizing the whole at a glance — a defective arrangement, which necessitates a long contemplation of the work. It is...
Página 76 - ... hands of a slave, and he had forbidden Pareja any work which would make him more than a servant of painting. But the laws of nature are stronger than those of society. Carried away by his passion, which was only strengthened by the obstacles it encountered, Pareja began to study with as much ardour as he was forced to use mystery. During the day he watched his master paint, and listened to the lessons he gave to his pupils ; then, during the night, he practised the lesson with pencil and brush....
Página 201 - Philosophers in Meditation, and still more the House of an Old Carpenter (which Rembrandt probably termed a Holy Family) are, in their humble proportions, the triumph of the school he founded, which is not merely art, but the poetry of naturalism. Two analogous pictures are in the National Gallery. Although also very small. the Woman taken in Adultery, and the Adoration of the Slupherds, must take the name and rank of historical pictures.
Página 221 - ... chiefly at Leyden where he died in 1691. His works are not commonly seen in England, as those of other Dutch artists; the National Gallery has not a single picture by him. He is the least of the lesser Dutch artists, the most patient and minutely finished of even that school. He took, it is said, three years to cover a piece of canvas one foot square, and a whole month to paint a lace band. It may easily be understood with such a method of painting how it happened that he did not paint more than...
Página 56 - The next year he returned to that city, being summoned this time by the Count-duke of Olivarez. Pacheco accompanied his son-in-law in this second journey, feeling sure that glory and fortune awaited him at court. And, indeed, his first pictures showed what he could do. Philip IV. ordered a portrait of himself, with which he was so delighted, that he immediately collected and caused to be destroyed all the portraits that had yet been taken of him, and he named Velasquez his private painter (pintor...
Página 256 - He composed," says the chronicler Nostradamus, " several beautiful and elegant romances, such as La Conqueste de la Doulce Merci, and the Mortifiement de Voine, Plai.vance, but he loved painting in particular with a passionate love, and was gifted by nature with such an uncommon aptitude for this noble profession that he was famous among the most excellent painters and illuminators of his time, which may be perceived by several masterpieces accomplished by his divine and royal hand.
Página 284 - ... two extreme modes required by the subjects of a series of pictures for a Carthusian convent, and for the sumptuous mansion of a millionaire, Lesueur painted many separate compositions of an intermediate and varied style, although they were all on religious subjects, in which he shows all the fulness and pliancy of his genius. Of these are — the Descent from the Cross, the Mass of St. Martin, the brother martyrs St. Gervasius and St. Protasius refusing to worship false gods. The latter picture,...
Página 256 - Magdalen at Marseilles, where tradition asserts that she was the first to proclaim the Gospel. In the background and in Chinese perspective, is the port of the old Phocian colony ; in the foreground is the audience of the converted sinner, in which Rene' has introduced himself with his wife Jeanne de Laval.