Painters and sculptors; a second series of Old masters and new, (1907)
Cox, Kenyon · Duffield and Co · leaf 66
argeagainst a distant landscape with a winding stream,upon winch we look down as from a height. In theengravings everything is different—there is nothingbut shapeless, dumpling-like masses of rock, piledso high, in the Combat with the Hydra, as utterlyto dwarf the figure, and pierced with a cave… … ANTONIO IOLLAH OIX>: HERCULES SLAYING THE HYDRA THE POLLAIUOLI 89 background. It is inconceivable tliai the painter whohad once made his figures tower against the distance /is those do should afterward substitute the clumsylumpinesfl which stands for tlie earth in the engrav-ings. My supposition…
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