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 . DESCENT FROM TPIE CROSS ANTWERP CATHEDRAL RUBENS. LAS MEMXAS (MAIDS OF HOXOK) IKADO ClALLKRV. MADKII) VELASQUEZ RUBENS-VELASQUEZ its surrounding objects. But if you compare that por-trait with Velasquezs picture, you will feel, I think, thatthe attention is scattered over Holbeins picture, whilein the case of Velasquezs the eye immediately takes itin as a whole. The little princess is the c
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 . DESCENT FROM TPIE CROSS ANTWERP CATHEDRAL RUBENS. LAS MEMXAS (MAIDS OF HOXOK) IKADO ClALLKRV. MADKII) VELASQUEZ RUBENS-VELASQUEZ its surrounding objects. But if you compare that por-trait with Velasquezs picture, you will feel, I think, thatthe attention is scattered over Holbeins picture, whilein the case of Velasquezs the eye immediately takes itin as a whole. The little princess is the center of thescene, the light being concentrated on her, as it is aroundthe principal figure in Rubenss picture; but, though ourattention is centered on the child, it revolves all roundher and immediately embraces the scene as a whole. Therealism of this picture is a realism of unity. INIoreover,it gives us a single vivid impression of the scene, suchas the king received; so we may call it also a realism ofimpression. To illustrate w^hat is meant by realism of impressionlet us contrast an example of the extreme opposite: 1807—Friedland, by JNIeissonier, in the INIetropolitan Mu-seum, New York. It is not necessary to have seen it toappreciate the d
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