Artist and public, and other essays on art subjects (1914)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd · leaf 186
onnas, might be al-lowed to sink comfortably into artisticoblivion without cause for protest. Butthere is another Raphael we could spareless easily, Raphael the portrait-painter.The great decorators have nearly alwaysbeen great portrait-painters as well, al-though—perhaps because—there is… … RAPHAEL finds in the submissive attention to ex-ternal fact necessary to success in por-traiture a source of refreshment and ofthat renewed contact with nature whichis constantly necessary to art if it is notto become too arid an abstraction. Cer-tainly it was so with Raphael, and themaster of…
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