Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 102
eir authors did not feel them, did not really be-lieve in them. They never saw what they painted,as a whole, as a life; they merely picked up dis-jointed fragments here and there and tried to re-construct a dead past from a collection of museumcuriosities. The value of the old masters work wasthat… … -TINTORETTO, Finding Body of St. Mark. Brera, Mil THEMES OP THE MASTERS 51 Pre-Eaphaelites was wasted, misapplied. The strain-ing for exactness in a belt or a button to astonish aPhilistine is counterbalanced by the objection of thehypercritical Jew that, after all, the second toe ofJoseph has not…
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