Painters and sculptors : a second series of Old masters and new (1907)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · New York : Duffield · leaf 66
largeagainst a distant landscape with a winding stream,upon which we look down as from a height. In theengravings everything is different—there is nothingbut shapeless, dumpling-hke masses of rock, piledso high, in the Combat with the Hydra, as utterlyto dwarf the figure, and pierced with a cave… … ANTONIO POLLAIUOLO: HERCULES SLAYING THE HYDRA THE POLLAIUOLI 29 background. It is inconceivable that the painter whohad once made his figures tower against the distanceas these do should afterward substitute the clumsylumpiness which stands for the earth in the engrav-ings. My supposition is that…
Art
Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Recueil de trois cent têtes et sujets de composition [graphic] (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-gri_recueildetro00cayl-128-178.webp)
