Painters and sculptors; a second series of Old masters and new, (1907)
Cox, Kenyon · Duffield and Co · leaf 174
the while, by slightest, per-haps unconscious, modifications and imperceptibleinsistences, he is enhancing the flow of a line or sub-tilising the gradation of a half-tone, making out hereand suppressing there, laying in a broad mass of tonewhere it will tell, or reducing another mass to… … HOLBEIN: PORTRAIT OF HUBERT MO RETT HOLBEIN 83 hardly he superior. In the combination of rigoroustruth-telling with sympathy and with a sense forbeauty Holbeins paintings and drawings arc alike—it is their abstentions, their apparent slightness,their economy of labour, their achievement of the…
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