A Series of Studies Designed And Engraved After Five Paintings By Raphael
The book A Series of Studies Designed And Engraved After Five Paintings By Raphael was written by author Emeric-David, T.-B. (Toussaint-Bernard), 1755-1839 Here you can read free online of A Series of Studies Designed And Engraved After Five Paintings By Raphael book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Series of Studies Designed And Engraved After Five Paintings By Raphael a good or bad book?
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[Size of painting 5 X 6| feet ; transferred from wood to canvas.] [^^I^^^HE Visitation is, of all the subjects which the history of the New Testament offers to the painter, the least dramatic, and, consequently, the least adapted for rep- resentation in a picture. Led into opposite extremes, both equally to be condemned, the great masters have, for the most part, failed before the difficulties which it presents. Some- times the want of expression and the barrenness of the scene show all the col...dness of the subject ; sometimes superfluous accessories fatigue the eye without rendering the action clearer or more inter- esting. Almost always ample draperies conceal the holy burdens of Mary and Elisabeth, — a fatal fault, which the love of beautiful outlines docs not excuse. The fact which ought to be painted is that which the artist seems to have feared to express. Rajjhael, simple and true, does not fatigue us with a pompous display, and leaves nothing to be desired which can touch the heart and ennoble his subject.
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