Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 20
rket-places—and at the same time whatpieces of jewellery, what cunning pyrotechnic display, whatcultivated flower-patch on the Riviera could equal the effectthat Turner has made of all this? Has anything so richto the eye ever left the jewellers hand? The gold-dustedgreen of the imperial beetle,… … APPROACH TO VENICE 3 and slabs of colour, heavy and mysterious like ancientstained-glass. What was Turners method of observation? Contin-uous? No, but intense and continually reminiscent. Oneknows his life—that of a recluse, full of monotony, buriedwithin the darkest house in the dingiest part of…
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