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 75
to a hackneyed subject, but itultimately led to evil effects. Artists were not satisfied with I 58 HOMES, HAUNTS, AND WORKS OF saintly legend, but emulated classic mythology, and revelled ingroups of angels and genii more fitted for Roman baths (wherethey originated) than Christian churches. Some… … Fig. 32.—From the Crucifixion, by Vandyke. skull carry out the same idea. When Art submits to the adoptionof such petty adjuncts, it is a sure sign of innate weakness; thefascination of such liberty is great, and soon resolves itself intolicense; and when weakness and license combine, we get…
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