The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . ich the artist givesin his pictures are inimitable — here, the youngspendthrift, the girl who helps him lose his money,the old beldame, and the notary already making aninventory of what is left. All these are placed ina room of extravagant disorder, with exquisitehumourous touches — note the duck on the notaryshumpback. The works of two architectural painters, Dirkvan Delen and Jan van der Heyden hang in thissection. The nascent feeling
The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . ich the artist givesin his pictures are inimitable — here, the youngspendthrift, the girl who helps him lose his money,the old beldame, and the notary already making aninventory of what is left. All these are placed ina room of extravagant disorder, with exquisitehumourous touches — note the duck on the notaryshumpback. The works of two architectural painters, Dirkvan Delen and Jan van der Heyden hang in thissection. The nascent feeling for landscape reached itsheight in Holland in the 17th century. The Renais-sance in Italy had given birth to a few men whogazed with curious delight upon the earth and itsverdure; and Titian, Giorgione, Raphael andLeonardo had already attempted with great abilityand beauty to portray landscape, although in de-pendence and subserviency to human and the Poussins had carried this farther,but still it seemed as if the human interest had tohelp out, so to speak, to make landscape remained for the Dutch of the 17th century to. Ube flemish an& H>utcb paintings 125 show that landscape might be treated as an objectin itself, worthy of our sympathy and admiration,independent of any human interest. And the spiritof the artists who perceived the beauty of earth,sea and sky commenced to interpret, preserve andconvey these beauties to the spirit of men ready toreceive it. The Dutch landscapists of that century aresparsely but worthily shown. By Jan van Goyenthere is a fine landscape (No. 1313), in whichWouwerman painted some animals. The flatstretch of ground, unbroken by trees, has neverthe-less, through its light and local colour, a picturesqueappearance. Allart van Everdingen has one of his turbulentscenes of a waterfall rushing over the mill-wheel,with equally turbulent sky (No. 1312). Thesescenes, so popular in his day because their pictur-esque local
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