How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . HOBBEMA-CLAUDE LORRAIN Indeed, if we have entered into the spirit of it, we mayfind that this picture, as well as Claudes, has its idealbeauty: if by this term we understand that kind ofbeauty which is distinguished by the idea revealed in other words, it is not only imaginary subjects whichmay be ideal: there may also be an idealization of outward appearance may be so ren
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . HOBBEMA-CLAUDE LORRAIN Indeed, if we have entered into the spirit of it, we mayfind that this picture, as well as Claudes, has its idealbeauty: if by this term we understand that kind ofbeauty which is distinguished by the idea revealed in other words, it is not only imaginary subjects whichmay be ideal: there may also be an idealization of outward appearance may be so rendered as tomake us feel also their underlying significance, the soul,as it were, within them. In this way a portrait may beidealized. I am not thinking for the moment of the kindof idealization indulged in by Van Dyck, who gave to allhis sitters, men and women, an elegant refinement cor-responding to the idea of elegance and refinement inhimself. That is more like the kind of ideahzation inClaudes picture. But let us take the case of a portraitof your own mother. One painter may paint it so thatanybody, comparing it with the original, will say it isa good likeness; whereas another may have the imagi
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