The art of the Prado : a survey of the contents of the gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them (1907)
Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931 · Boston : L.C. Page & company · leaf 90
and painting andover-insistence upon relief, he is surpassed onlyby the greatest painters; it might even be saidthat this heaviness of handling reflected somethingheavy, literal, and even a little cruel in his nature,which had caught colour from his time and hisenvironment. The qualities of his… … RIBERA. —THE MARTYRDOM OF ST BARTHOLOMEW Ube Spanisb Scbooi before H)elasque3 75 great colourists; it has a steady and somewhatoppressive glow, as of some heavy perfume; ithas the tenacity and uniformity of rich and har-moniously contrasted dyes. But the more sen-suous appeal of art was foreign to…
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