A Classified Synopsis of the Principal Painters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, Their Scholars, Imitators, and Analogists: Including an Account of Some of the Early German Masters, Connected with Those of Flanders and HollandH.G. Bohn, 1855 - 416 pages |
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Page xxiv
... drawing made to be engraved ; and the artist is called a designer , to distinguish him from a painter of a picture . It , however , has a more extensive sense , and may be used in various ways with reference to art . DISTEMPER . The ...
... drawing made to be engraved ; and the artist is called a designer , to distinguish him from a painter of a picture . It , however , has a more extensive sense , and may be used in various ways with reference to art . DISTEMPER . The ...
Page xxxi
... draw like Raffaelle , to be able to counterfeit his design . He must possess his mind before he can imitate his expression , and be endowed with his genius before he can equal the grandeur of his compositions . The most skilful of the ...
... draw like Raffaelle , to be able to counterfeit his design . He must possess his mind before he can imitate his expression , and be endowed with his genius before he can equal the grandeur of his compositions . The most skilful of the ...
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... drawing , and colouring . It may be grand and dignified , florid and ornate , simple and natural , as regards the treatment of the subject in general ; and it may exhibit original peculiarities of forms and expressions , or capricious ...
... drawing , and colouring . It may be grand and dignified , florid and ornate , simple and natural , as regards the treatment of the subject in general ; and it may exhibit original peculiarities of forms and expressions , or capricious ...
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... drawing . He was fortunate in his pupils , if it be true that he numbered Philip Wouwerman , Adrian Van de Velde , and Jan Lingelbach , among them . No mention is made of the master by whom he himself was instructed . His landscapes are ...
... drawing . He was fortunate in his pupils , if it be true that he numbered Philip Wouwerman , Adrian Van de Velde , and Jan Lingelbach , among them . No mention is made of the master by whom he himself was instructed . His landscapes are ...
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... drawings of the beautiful scenes near Tivoli and Rome , he adopted a style more nearly approaching Gaspar Poussin ; and being well versed in per- spective and architecture , he embellished his pictures with noble buildings , that give ...
... drawings of the beautiful scenes near Tivoli and Rome , he adopted a style more nearly approaching Gaspar Poussin ; and being well versed in per- spective and architecture , he embellished his pictures with noble buildings , that give ...
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