Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), b. 1862, binding designer · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co · leaf 180
erally, as such, with all its technicali-ties, difficulties, and particular ends, is nothing but a nobleand expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle ofthought, but by itself nothing. He who has learned whatis commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is,the art of representing any… … THE OLD SHEPHERDS CHIEF MOURNER 13: who has learned how to express himself grammatically andmelodiously has towards being a great poet. The lan-guage is, indeed, more difficult of acquirement in the onecase than in the other, and possesses more power of de-lighting the sense, while it speaks to the…
Painting · Art criticism
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![An illustration from Portraits d'artistes : peintres: Berthe Art, François Bulens, André Collin ... [et al.] : sculpteurs: Guillaume Charlier, Isidore de Rudder, Julien Dillens ... [et al.] (1905)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-portraitsdartist00pier-176-54.webp)
