Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 42
practice. An artist of genius—Delacroix or GustavDore: and Dore certainly had a genius, tliougli he abused it—would have known how tograpple with such a subject, and would have subdued it, even at the risk of swallowing up allthe minor improbabilites of proportion and composition in one greater… … SAMSON THROWING DOWN THE PILLARS OF THE THEATRE.- FROM THE BIBLE BY SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD. space. Some of his compositions in this remarkable book are astonishing for the audacitywith which he has dared, and for the success with which he has achieved, subjects that noamount of training, no…
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