Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 181
nces us, and it almost alwaysfails to please us at first. In the first place, it shocks ourlogical sense and that habitual visual rectitude that lovesclear forms, lucid ideas, and clearly formulated boldness;something warns us that our imagination as well as ourreason will be only half satisfied… … THE NIGHT WATCH 125 detestable; the frame of dark wood in which the paintingis drowned spoils its middle values, and its bronze scale ofcolour, and its force, and makes it look much more smokedthan it is; and, lastly and above all, the exigencies of theplace prevent the picture from being hung at…
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