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 233
opposite means that wouldordinarily be supposed were used. Thus it is known of Guido that his most beautifulfemale heads were painted from a male colour-grinder, who is described as perfectlyhideous, and whose features were transformed into a itagdalen, with the same pose andchiaro-oscuro, but with… … grand, worthy of tho solitary man who lived only for his art,and saw only the severe or terrible features of nature. If he DUTCH LANDSCAPE AND FLOWER-PAINTERS. 217 painted a native scene, which seldom occurred, it is invested withthe mouraful gloom of Holland, rather than with the happierfeatures…
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