Modern Spanish painting; being a review of some of the chief painters and paintings of the Spanish school since the time of Goya (1908)
Temple, A. G. (Alfred George), 1848-1928 · London : A. Fairbairns & company, limited · leaf 160
lumns of marble and porphyry, aboutthe capitals of which sumptuous draperies are gathered, and thescene is lightened by richly stained-glass windows. Groups of ivoryand bronze are introduced, and gilded consoles, elegant brackets, andlustres of Venetian glass and costly inlaid tables, while the… … MODERN SPANISH PAINTING 79 denied that the scene, like La Vicaria, while dexterously focussed,is surrounded by such a mass of ornamentalism that a consciousnessprevails of almost overpowering detail. The eye may be entertainedand, in a certain sense, satisfied ; but the contemplation of thepicture…
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