The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 193A. Constable, 1901 |
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... picture of the changes in the intellectual attitude adopted by man towards nature at large which lies at the base of all landscape art . They are , indeed , attitudes that often elude rigid classification . Yet , while the currents of ...
... picture of the changes in the intellectual attitude adopted by man towards nature at large which lies at the base of all landscape art . They are , indeed , attitudes that often elude rigid classification . Yet , while the currents of ...
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... pictures of early Italian art . Where , as in Plate xiii . , a divine Mother and Child are seated beneath the ornamented architecture of an open court , beyond whose high boundary of sharply defined foliage a wide lake washes the shores ...
... pictures of early Italian art . Where , as in Plate xiii . , a divine Mother and Child are seated beneath the ornamented architecture of an open court , beyond whose high boundary of sharply defined foliage a wide lake washes the shores ...
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... pictures at large everywhere asseverated the latent bent of men's minds towards a freer appropriation , an enlarged apprehension , of nature . Painted landscape emancipating itself from its inherited traditions of symbolic form ...
... pictures at large everywhere asseverated the latent bent of men's minds towards a freer appropriation , an enlarged apprehension , of nature . Painted landscape emancipating itself from its inherited traditions of symbolic form ...
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... pictures invite the onlooker to see ; they forbid him to think , even more they forbid him to feel . That such realism , naturalism , materialism - call it what men will - of Dutch art should be perpetually modified by the personal ...
... pictures invite the onlooker to see ; they forbid him to think , even more they forbid him to feel . That such realism , naturalism , materialism - call it what men will - of Dutch art should be perpetually modified by the personal ...
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... picture galleries - the convenient catchwords of every student's manual , of every exhibition catalogue . But if each artist painted each in his own genre , still the essential qualities of Dutch art remain . If the dominance of ...
... picture galleries - the convenient catchwords of every student's manual , of every exhibition catalogue . But if each artist painted each in his own genre , still the essential qualities of Dutch art remain . If the dominance of ...
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