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The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art

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Albano Angelico, Fra Anguisciola Buckhuysen

Baroccio Bartolommeo, Fra Bellini, The Berchem

Bol Bordone Both Botticelli

Canaletto Capella, Van de Caravaggio Carpaccio

Carracci, The Cellini Claude Loraine Correggio

Crivelli Cuyp Domenichino Dow

Du Jardin Dürer Eycks, The Van Filippo, Fra

Fontana Francia, Il Gaddi Garofalo

Ghiberti Ghirlandajo Gibbons, Grinling Giorgione

Giotto Gozzoli Greuze Guercino

Guido Heem, De Helst, Van der Heyden, Van der

Hobbema Holbein Hondecoeter Honthorst

Hooch Huysum, Van Kneller Le Brun

Lely Leyden, Van Lionardo da Vinci Lipi

Luini Maas Mabuse Mantegna

Masaccio Matsys Memling Mengs

Messina, Da Metzu Michael Angelo Murillo

Neer Netcher Orcagna Ostade, Van

Palma Pardenone Parmigianino Perugino

Pisano Potter Poussin Raphael

Rembrandt Romano Rubens Ruysdael

Salvator Rosa Sarto, Del Sassoferrato Segers

Signorelli Snyders Somer, Van Spagna

Spagnoletto Steen Teniers, Father and Son Terburg

Tintoretto Titian Van Dyck Vasari

Velasquez Velde, Van de Velde, Van de, The Younger Veronese

Watteau Weenix Werff Witte

Wouvermans

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Note 1: (return) It is in their unconsciousness and earnestness that a parallel is drawn between the first Italian painters and the ElizabetNote 2 · Note 2: (return) Kugler's Handbook of Art.Note 3 · Note 3: (return) While writing of goldsmiths that became painters, I may say a word of a goldsmith who, without quitting his trade, was an uNote 4 · Note 4: (return) Kugler's Hand-book of Painting.Note 5 · Note 5: (return) Kugler's Hand-book of Painting.Note 6 · Note 6: (return) See note, page 422.Note 7 · Note 7: (return) Mrs Roscoe's Life of Vittoria ColonnaNote 8 · Note 8: (return) Michael Angelo's will was very simple. 'I bequeath my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my possessions to my nearest rNote 9 · Note 9: (return) Lady Eastlake, History of Our Lord.Note 10 · Note 10: (return) Hare, Walks in Rome.Note 11 · Note 11: (return) Lanzi, in Hare's Walks in Rome.Note 12 · Note 12: (return) Rio. Poetry of Christian Art, in Hare's Walks in Rome.Note 13 · Note 13: (return) Mrs Jameson.Note 14 · Note 14: (return) Dean Alford.Note 15 · Note 15: (return) Imperial Biographical Dictionary.Note 16 · Note 16: (return) Titian's age is variously given; some authorities make it ninety-nine years, placing the date of his death in 1570 or 7.Note 17 · Note 17: (return) Kugler.Note 18 · Note 18: (return) The term originated in the French expression, 'du genre bas.'Note 19 · Note 19: (return) He had a peculiar fondness for blue and bronze hues.Note 20 · Note 20: (return) It is due to Tintoret to say, that there are modern critics, who look below the surface, and are at this date deeply enamoNote 21 · Note 21: (return) Mrs Jameson.Note 22 · Note 22: (return) Guido said of Rubens: 'Does this painter mix blood with his colours?'Note 23 · Note 23: (return) Life of Rubens.Note 24 · Note 24: (return) If I mistake not, this is the same Countess of Arundel who, in her widowhood, resided in Italy in order to be near her youNote 25 · Note 25: (return) Here is the description of a very different Rembrandt which appears in this year's Exhibition of the Works by Old Masters:Note 26 · Note 26: (return) He had been called the Titian of flower and fruit painters. He preferred fruit for his subject. His works are not common iNote 27 · Note 27: (return) Sir W. Stirling Maxwell.Note 28 · Note 28: (return) Sir W. Stirling Maxwell.Note 29 · Note 29: (return) Hare, Wanderings in Spain.Note 30 · Note 30: (return) Hare's Wanderings in Spain.Note 31 · Note 31: (return) The spelling is an English corruption of the French Claud.Note 32 · Note 32: (return) Poussin had a villa near Ponte Molle, and the road by which he used to go to it is still called in Rome 'Poussin's walk.'Note 33 · Note 33: (return) Claude's summer villa is still pointed out near Rome.Note 34 · Note 34: (return) Imperial Biographical Dictionary.Note 35 · Note 35: (return) Madame Le Brun, whose maiden name was Vigée, born 1755, died 1842, was an excellent portrait painter.Note 36 · Note 36: (return) Wornum.Note 37 · Note 37: (return) Wornum.Note 38 · Note 38: (return) Supposed to be a niece of Sir Thomas More's.Note 39 · Note 39: (return) Rev. J. Lewis, 1731.Note 40 · Note 40: (return) Wornum.Note 41 · Note 41: (return) A still more famous picture by Holbein is that called 'The Two Ambassadors,' and believed to represent Sir Thomas Wyatt anNote 42 · Note 42: (return) Walpole.Note 43 · Note 43: (return) Walpole.Note 44 · Note 44: (return) Dwarfs figured at Charles's court, as at the court of Philip IV. of Spain.Note 45 · Note 45: (return) The notion that Van Dyck sacrificed truth to grace is absolutely contradicted by certain critics, who bring forward as a pNote 46 · Note 46: (return) Walpole.Note 47 · Note 47: (return) Walpole.Note 48 · Note 49: (return) A lunette is a small picture, generally semicircular, surmounting the main picture in an altar-piece.Note 49 · Note 51: (return) A picture with one door of two panels is called a diptych, with two doors of three panels a triptych, with many doors and Note 50 · Note 52: (return) Fairholt's 'Homes and Haunts of Foreign Artists.'Note 51 · Note 53: (return) Alchemists, like hermits, still existed in the seventeenth century.Note 52 · Note 54: (return) Bartholomew Van der Helst, 1613-1670, was another great Dutch portrait painter. His portrait pieces with many figures are Note 53 · Note 55: (return) It may be that Ruysdael's straggling life was reflected in his lowering skies and stormy seas.Note 54 · Note 56: (return) Other eminent painters, such as Van de Velde, Wouvermans, and Berchem often supplied cattle and figures to Hobbema's landsNote 55 · Note 57: (return) Was the apparently greater success of these partly denaturalised Dutch landscape painters, as contrasted with the adversitNote 56 · Note 58: (return) Peter Gysels was another painter of 'still life.' His butterflies are said to have been rendered with 'exquisite finish.'
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