Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers (1907)
Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 374
ess in painting. Of old, as before the SeventeenthCentury in Germany and Italy, the art of landscape paint-ing per se was inefficiently cultivated, at least it was ex-pressed with irregularity, although occasionally with forceenough to show that the pathos and the beauty of naturewere by no means… … THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 291 backgrounds to his figures: between these painters no onedid much, or even well in the pathetic part of the achieve-ment. Since Reynolds, none have approached him in suc-cess. It will be understood that the object of these re-marks is not to suggest…
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