Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 159
nity in the subject renders itintelligible why we look so coldly at these works in the churches and galleries.The genius of painting expends its strength in vain on Crucifixions, HolyFamilies, Last Suppers, and the like. Not five years had elapsed afterCarstens death when, according to an… … OVERBECK. ^t- SEVEN LEAN YEARS. the thought for his picture, can be looked upon, as Goethe alreadj^ wrote,as the true profession of faith of the young school. Where previous!}Augustus William had described in his sonnets the lo, Leda, and Cleopatraof the Dresden Gallery, it was now the Madonna who…
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