The early work of Raphael . ough one generation after another, until, likeShakespeare, they have seated themselves on thrones which no one triesany more to shake, they would find Orchardson bearing the juxtapositionvastly better than some of their idols. Let us try the comparison here, and let us take no less a man thanRembrandt for our purpose. Supposing we apply the fashionable notionas to how a subject should be looked at, as to how paint should behandled, as to how far objective fact should control the whole perform-ance, to him, we should be forced to allow that three or four livingartist
The early work of Raphael . ough one generation after another, until, likeShakespeare, they have seated themselves on thrones which no one triesany more to shake, they would find Orchardson bearing the juxtapositionvastly better than some of their idols. Let us try the comparison here, and let us take no less a man thanRembrandt for our purpose. Supposing we apply the fashionable notionas to how a subject should be looked at, as to how paint should behandled, as to how far objective fact should control the whole perform-ance, to him, we should be forced to allow that three or four livingartists are greater painters. Tested in any way whatever, except by thecreative force of the imagination displayed in his work, and by thecertainty with which he selected those facts which helped him to enforcehis own conceptions, Rembrandts present elevation to the highest summitsof art will be difficult to justify. If we judge his colour, or his sense ofvalues, or even, down to a comparatively late period in his life, his hand-.
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