Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 127
CARSTENS. PRIAM AND ACHILLES. announced so proudly to Heinitz, the Minister ; for that he possessed toolittle originality. It is not imagination, but reminiscence, which created hisworks. The outlines of his plates aie done with fine sentiment, but sentiment 94 THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING … GENELLT. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES. taken from the Greeks, and he required no genius to recognise in his recollectionand his hand a transcript of Greek forms. What pleases us in Carstens is insubstance not Carstens, but an echo of what we hke in the Greek statues andvases, in Michael Angelo and other…
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