A hand-book for young painters (1855) (14761876984)

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Title: A hand-book for young painters

Year: 1855 (1850s)

Authors: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 Clarke, Harriet Ludlow, d. 1866 Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853 Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904 Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 Scharf, George, 1788-1860 Cozens, John Robert, 1752-1797 Girtin, Thomas, 1775-1802

Subjects: Painting

Publisher: London : J. Murray

Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute

Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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the principle; even in hisarchitecture,—wherever he can do so with propriety,—he introduces shapes suggestive of motion, such astwisted pillars and serpentine forms. Fuseli describesthe materials of his pictures as swept along in agulf of colours; as herbage, trees, and shrubs, arewhirled, tossed, and absorbed, by an inundation.The stream of his light and shadow is, indeed,among his greatest charms. But it is incident togenius, so animated as his, to delight itself beyondbounds in what it can do best, and Rubens notonly in some instances overstrains the action of hisfigures, but surfeits the eye with movement. Thereis a picture, entirely his own work, in the Louvre, arustic wedding, filled with figures dancing, romping,and rolling on the ground. Even those that sit andstand seem incapable of sitting or standing still. Itis indeed a wonderful display of the most difficult atti-tudes mastered with consummate ease; but, were anysimilar subject by Teniers placed beside it, its utter V

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