Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 172
please notice that the great painters of alltime did not despise painting the portrait, that theyreally took pleasure in painting it, and that theirgreat masterpieces are portraits. There is a notionprevalent in uninlolligont circles that portrait-painting is a perfunctory affair, a following of… … XXVIIL—PlERO DELLA FRANCESCA (?), Unknown Lady. Pitti, Florence. PORTRAIT PAINTING 97 brandt (Plate 37) is about the best that painting hasto offer us. Let me suggest also that in studying the greatportraits you do not allow yourself to be botheredby the ugly or the handsome. You may thinkthat…
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