Pictures and their painters; the history of painting (1907)
Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · New York: John Lane Co. · leaf 203
o overcome the exaggera-tions of that school and to make a return to the simpler methodsof his predecessors. Poussin was so enthusiastic over hisfrescos in the Farnese Palace at Rome that he said the workwas only surpassed by Raphael. The suljject of those frescoswas taken from mythology, in the… … Fig. 114.—Caracci. Christ and the Woman of Samaria. Imi>erial Gallery, Vienna. them considerable more strength than was found in the senti-mental compositions of the Mannerists. In studying his pictures we find that he was a student ofnature as well as a student of the great masters. This…
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