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 34
school of great schemes, in which themasses are blent into one great harmony. The masses orpatches of colour are isolated, and produce a pleasantvariegation, without fusion. His colour is thin, also, as ofa superficial tinting, not affecting the substance. His fleshis hard and opaque, his flowers… … Till. A VM NCIATION. THE ANNUNCIATION 15 Ecstasy^ or of brick and marble, as in The Annunciation^that you get the true consistency as well as the true colour.Yet his colour is exquisite of its kind, brilliant and trans-parent like enamel, and the different tints in themselves arelovely and varied.…
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