The art of the Wallace Collection, including an account of its founders, a description of the pictures, and a survey of the chief exhibits in the galleries devoted to objects of art and arms and armour (1913)
Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 154
is art. Perhaps that is too stronga term; at any rate, he does depart from that strict black and white style which is sometimessaid to have been his unvarying method. No doubtthe Venus and Adonis may be described as astudy in flesh tints, but the dark green backgroundgives them a welcome warmth. In… … Jrencb anb Brittsb Hrt 109 point of view plus his pleasure in Greek myth, hismethod of interpretation is its own justification.Although he was influenced by the subjective man-ner of Correggio, of whom he was a close student,he bettered his master in the modelling of his forms.This power is…
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