How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods (1905)
Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · New York, Century Co. · leaf 300
materials were generally borrowed, but the noblestructure was his own. For example, in the Mrs. Siddons the pose of the fig-ure, especially in the carriage of the head and left armand hand, recalls JNIichelangelos painting of Isaiah onthe ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; while in the lattersJeremiah… … MRS. SIDDONS AS THETRAGIC MUSE SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS GROSVEXOR HOUSE, LONDON REYNOLDS-GAINSBOROUGH figures, Crime and Remorse, in the Reynolds picture.If you compare the Siddons and the Isaiah, you will l)econscious at once of particular similarities and yet ofgeneral difference. Each figure is…
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