Painters and sculptors; a second series of Old masters and new, (1907)
Cox, Kenyon · Duffield and Co · leaf 214
d have beenthe rounded limbs of a Greek nymph. From a purely technical point of view, then, thisis the supreme distinction of Rembrandt: to havedevoted himself to the study of chiaroscuro, to havesacrificed everything else to it, to have attained aknowledge of it beyond that of Tintoretto,… … REMBRANDT: DR. FAUSTUS Engraved through the courte-sy of the Print Department of the New YorkPublic Library THE REMBRANDT TERCENTENARY 109 of a tool which, while it would not do In their hands what it did in his, was yet capable of perform-ing tasks he had not set it. This alone would beenough for…
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