Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 100
uthors did not feel them, di<l not really be-lieve in them. They never saw what they painted,as a whole, as a life; they merely picked up dis-jointed fragments here and there and tried to re-construct a dead past from a collection of museumcuriosities. The value of the old masters work wasthat… … XV.—TINTORETTO, Finding Body of St. Mark. Brera, Milan. THEMES OF THE MASTERS 51 Pre-Eaphaclites was wasted, misapplied. The strain-ing for exactness in a belt or a button to astonish aIhilistine is counterbalanced by the objection of thehypercritical Jew that, after all, the second toe ofJoseph…
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