Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 371
his hair, and his beard ; onecould never imagine, without seeing it, such a furious elanysuch an overflowing of animal spirit, such a joy of paganflesh, such a triumph of free and shameless life in the openair and broad sunlight. What an injustice to limit theVenetians to the painting of merely… … < BACCHUS AND ARIADNE 275 has attracted them j like the Flemings, they have theircolossi also. Their drawing, even without colour, iscapable by itself of expressing all the solidity and all thevitality of the human structure. Look in this same hall atthe four grisailles by Veronese — five or six…
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