Homes, haunts, and works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and Cuyp; the Dutch genre-painters; Michael Angelo and Raffaelle. Being a series of art-rambles in Belgium, Holland and Italy (1872)
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · New York : D. Appleton and co. · leaf 185
the impossibilityof classing it with the grander imaginings of the Italian school.Art was in that school principally devoted to the sacred serviceof the Church, or the dignified realisation of historic scenes ;it therefore always possessed a certain elevated dignity whenit approached ordinary life… … Jfi aP. Jf.oji:^^ an Ostade, who would bestow all the graces of art on an oldwoman threading her needle ; or with the dashing joviality ofJan Steen, who would revel in a tavern scene with greater gusto than had ever been seen before in the history of imitative art. Their success as a school…
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