Great masters of Dutch and Flemish painting (1909)
Bode, Wilhelm von, 1845-1929, Clarke, Margaret L · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 230
er details is frequently conventional and perfunc-tory. In his motives, the artist, in striving after greatforms and stronger effects—expressed in the most part alsoin the larger size of his pictures—is led into crowded con-struction. He no longer takes his own studies of naturefor his paintings.… … a, * £ lj s hJ < hJ Q £> fc X fc p> 3 M k 35 H JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 167 paint waterfalls, broad streams which force their waythrough narrow walls of rock, and dash their mightymasses of foaming water down into the foreground, whichis shut in by wooded mountains with castles or ruins onthe…
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