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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... truth , to be violent and unnatural . Such is frequently the case in the fine landscapes of Rubens and Titian . It is only by a strict attention to nature that the artist can succeed in the repre- sentation of aƫrial perspective ; he ...
... truth , to be violent and unnatural . Such is frequently the case in the fine landscapes of Rubens and Titian . It is only by a strict attention to nature that the artist can succeed in the repre- sentation of aƫrial perspective ; he ...
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... truth , is the cause why he is thought to have been a scholar of Ruisdael . His Storms at Sea , so terrific and so faithful in the representation , have strengthened the belief ; but these resemblances between the works of the two mas ...
... truth , is the cause why he is thought to have been a scholar of Ruisdael . His Storms at Sea , so terrific and so faithful in the representation , have strengthened the belief ; but these resemblances between the works of the two mas ...
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... truth and attention to nature . His grander works , it is probable , were executed after his thirtieth year , and when he was on intimate terms with Ruisdael , and the several ex- cellent artists by whom they are embellished with ...
... truth and attention to nature . His grander works , it is probable , were executed after his thirtieth year , and when he was on intimate terms with Ruisdael , and the several ex- cellent artists by whom they are embellished with ...
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... truth of his assertion . This astounding intelli- gence induced the proprietor at once to post to London , and abruptly to demand of the picture - cleaner what he had done with his Berchem ? The suddenness of the demand , after a lapse ...
... truth of his assertion . This astounding intelli- gence induced the proprietor at once to post to London , and abruptly to demand of the picture - cleaner what he had done with his Berchem ? The suddenness of the demand , after a lapse ...
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... truth of nature ; his evening scenes have the full glow of summer . No painter , perhaps with the exception of Cuyp , ever excelled him in sunshine effects . Pynaker , like several other eminent Dutch landscape painters , was employed ...
... truth of nature ; his evening scenes have the full glow of summer . No painter , perhaps with the exception of Cuyp , ever excelled him in sunshine effects . Pynaker , like several other eminent Dutch landscape painters , was employed ...
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