Six Portraits : Della Robbia, Correggio, Blake, Corot, George Fuller, Winslow Homer
The book Six Portraits : Della Robbia, Correggio, Blake, Corot, George Fuller, Winslow Homer was written by author Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934 Here you can read free online of Six Portraits : Della Robbia, Correggio, Blake, Corot, George Fuller, Winslow Homer book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Six Portraits : Della Robbia, Correggio, Blake, Corot, George Fuller, Winslow Homer a good or bad book?
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But consider a moment what the world would own had it been executed in another way. " Such designs," writes Gil- christ of the pictures for Blair's " Grave," " are in motive, spirit, and manner of em- bodiment without parallel, and enlarge the boundaries of art. Such art ranks with that of the greatest eras, — is of the same sublime reach and pure quality. What signifies it that these drawings cover but a few inches and are executed in water-colors instead of oils or frescoes ? " The praise is ...not a whit too strong, but surely that sig- nifies much which the biographer asserts can signify not at all. The designs are great and wonderful as we have them, but let us fancy them difEerently displayed. Let us imagine " Death's Door," or the wonderfully beautiful " Meeting of a Family in Heaven," spread before us in great fres- coes on a sanctuary wall, or the finest of all the " Job " designs, — " The Sons of God shouted for Joy." We can easily thus 136 SIX PORTRAITS. imagine them without a change in line or feature, and no fact could more strongly prove their unsurpassable Tightness as pic- torial compositions.
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