Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 44
res, and need a microscope rather than set-ting and distance. Nor is a portrait by Van Dyckor Holbein either greatly harmed or helped by gal-lery light; but it is very different with a wall pictureby Tintoretto, or a series of foreshortened ceilingpieces by Paolo Veronese. Seen at short range… … IV—PAOLO VERONESE (?), Ttlumph of Mordecai. S. Sebastiano, Venice. OLD MASTERS OUT OF PLACE 15 placed upright on the wall instead of flattened onthe ceiling (Plate 4). In Venice, when you sawPaolo and Tintoretto on the walls and ceiliags of theDucal Palace did you have any protest to make…
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