The art of painting in the nineteenth century (1908)
Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927 · Boston, London, Ginn and Co. · leaf 222
y selectedhis subjects from antiquity, and painted them,like many modern Englishmen, with masterfularchaeological accuracy, believing that he couldthus make real again events long past. Valen-tin Syerov (1865 ) *s a good portrait painter, and Alfred von Kowalski-Wierurz (1849 ) one of the best… … RUSSIAN PAINTING 149 painted the naked truth and had a keen eye forthe sensational. That one aim of art might be toplease he did not know. He craved excitementand knew better than most men how to stir thesoul to its very depth. Surcharged with emotion,his canvases, nevertheless, are quiet in…
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