How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of the painters' motives and methods ..
An art-appreciation manual by critic Charles H. Caffin, published by the Century Company in New York in 1906, pairing European paintings side by side so general readers and students could compare motive and method. The plates are halftone reproductions of Old Master and later works u2014 Van Eyck's Madonna with Chancellor Rolin, Tintoretto-style crowd scenes, Watteau-like park gatherings, interiors with figures u2014 useful as soft-grained grayscale sources for composition studies, period costume, and architectural settings.
