John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 421
they have no {ippn^dation of anything but 408 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. flesh and blood; and they will not allow that there is any greater merit in giving an angelic or intel-lectual expression to a face than there is in the truthful delineation of a neck, an arm, or a leg. Theylook… … like him j and, as the facidty of simple imitation gratifies their love of fleshy forms, they require fromthe painter no intellectual identity; nor do they value the mind, the music breathing from the face.Such are the men who rave about the productions of Valentin. Valentin, one of the most…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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