The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 247
s a master of vaporouscolour, sometimes silvery, sometimesgolden, always suave and caressing.This colour is not merely spread uponhis figures, but around them; it islike a nimbus from which they emerge,embellished by its splendour. Mu-rillo was the most eloquent inter-preter of that tender and… … FIG. 441.—PORTRAIT OF DONA ISABEL Y CORCEL.GOYA. (N.Ttional Gallery, London.) these traditions. Goya (1746-1828)appeared a second Velasquez at a 228 ITALIAN DECADENCE AND SPANISH SCHOOL time when scarcely anyone in Europeknew how to paint. The Frenchcolourists of the ninetenth centuryfelt his…
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