Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 28
ere no galleries in his day, and he never paintedany spectacular pictures for a Salon, with the thoughtthat it might be bought by the state for a galleryof the Luxembourg. His Crucifixion, let us say, wasdone for the high altar of S. Giovanni Evangelista,his Madonna and Child for the Strozzi… … OLD MASTERS OUT OF PLACE 5 perhaps painted and given to Domenicos daughteron her wedding day. Each picture that went fromhis workshop passed to the place for which it wasdesigned, and each picture in its place fulfilled itspurpose, and had a reason for existence. Couldhe foresee the passing of…
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