Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 384
or the dentist. It makes no differencewhether they are meant to be portraits or merely embody a feminine plasticlyricism. It was not wise of Makart to paint a portrait. He might drape hisoriginal after Palma Vecchio, after Rubens or Rembrandt, as Semiramis ora Japanese ; his intellectual incapacity… … MAKART. THE ESPOUSALS OF CATTEKINA CORNARO. amongst his contemporaries, in that epoch dominated by the historical paint-ing, and not yet arrived at an original conception of nature. Poussin said ofRaphael : if you compare him with the moderns he is an eagle, but if youplace him by the Greeks he is…
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