Inside Out Library · Explore

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

An illustration from Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton, 1909, 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.…

Painting · Art criticism

Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton

More like this