The Prado, a survey of the contents of the gallery : together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them (1912)
Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931 · Boston. : St. Botolph Society · leaf 114
environ-ment, against a background of black or grey,entirely arbitrary, in fact; that the pattern ofhis portraits is too often the same, and hasdescended to him from Moro, or through Morofrom Titian, who was its creator. We forgetthat in the realms of imagination or fancy hecan fall even below the… … Delasques anfc /iDurillo 99 both in form and substance; we yield to thefreshness and delicacy of his vision, the graveand subtle charm of his personality. His effort expresses neither the joy and theample resources of life itself, as with Rubens;nor its tragedy and comedy, as with Rembrandt;nor its…
Museo del Prado · Paintings
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