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Painters and sculptors : a second series of Old masters and new (1907)

Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · New York : Duffield · leaf 212

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d have beenthe rounded limbs of a Greek nymph. From a purely technical point of view, then, thisis the supreme distinction of Rembrandt: to havedevoted himself to the study of chiaroscuro, to havesacrificed everything else to it, to have attained aknowledge of it beyond that of Tintoretto,… … REMBRANDT: DR. FAUSTUS Kngraved through the courtesy of the Print Department of the New YorkPublic Library THE REMBRANDT TERCENTENARY 109 of a tool which, while it would not do in theirhands what it did in his, was yet capable of perform-ing tasks he had not set it. This alone would beenough for…

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