The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 246
e.Yet withal, he does not, likeRembrandt, create an artificial atmos-phere for his personages. The air he breathes is our own, the sky abovehim is that under which we live.Before his creations we- receive thesame impression as that made uponus by living beings. Before a workof Valesquez, wrote… … FIG. 439. LAS MAJAS ON THE BALCONY. (Museum, Madrid.)(Photo, by Lacoslc.) his high qualities as a painter, clarityof composition and a grandiose simpli-city. He envelops his models inambient air, and places them soexactly on the planes they ought tooccupy that we feel as if we werewalking round…
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