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13119[ 1] 1837- 1839(?).
39943Who would ever have thought that one could paint noise and tumult?
41834For the founder of that order, Angelico had the greatest love and admiration; who indeed could refuse to pay such tribute even to- day?
41648This landscape,"Chill October,"was at the Academy with his"Yes or No?"
41541What would we not give to- day for an authentic account of the conversations that these men must have held together?
30316What would he have thought of the later masterpieces by the same hand?
30316Who shall say that the scant consideration he received from parasites and courtiers was an unmixed evil?
36930Whom do you carry to the grave?
36930How much more so then, three hundred years ago, when Murillo was born to enjoy its beauty?
42163Were his patrons great men who rewarded him as he deserved-- how did he fare when the evening came wherein no man may work?
30180If now they displease you and are not praised, what can I do to help it?''
30314But free from convention?
30314Where was that Paris to be found?
41674And will the comparison with Millet fully bear examination?
41674What would some of our painters say to a conscience so tyrannous?
37088It was followed in 1861 by"What d''ye lack, madam?"
41497Who shall do justice to the crowds that thronged the studio?
43988MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY-- T. LEMAN HARE TITIAN 1477(?
43068Is it possible that fellow- creatures so utterly debased by toil and neglect exist?
39286But in what does this consist?
39286But what does he see?
39286The difference of opinion will principally refer to"what part can be taught?"
41939And what is to be said of the landscape which is bathed in a clear, bright light, flecked here and there with trails of fleecy cloud?
41939Is there any finer presentment of the tranquil beauty of a lion in repose than_ The Lion Meditating_?
41939Then it needed only application and courage?
41947Has he not wealth and estates?
41947What indeed does he not do?
33166Being asked if he was about to sit to Landseer for a portrait, he asked,"Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?"
33166While the terrier saucily asks"Who are you?"
41836What do you think of this,she said to Dolci;"is it not a wonderful piece of work?
41836You do beautiful work, my Carlo,he said;"but how can you make it pay when you give hours and hours to that close finish?
41836Can you believe that it was really painted in such a short time?"
34645If, therefore,_ habitator Bergomi_ does not prove him a native of Bergamo, will the words_ Tarvisii commorantis_ make him a native of Trevigi?
34645Who, however, can assure us that it is in fact the handwriting of Lotto, which he there found written?]
43410How many notable men has he rescued from the comparative oblivion of the printed record?
43410In how many cases has he helped us to correct or justify the impressions of the historian?
30315Are the Portrait- Painters as well employed as ever?
30315He used to declare that the advice of James Byres( 1734- 1818?)
30315[ 1] J. Michael Wright( 1625?-1700?
20607II What do I think of the master now, after so many years?
20607Was it national prejudice, or was it conviction?
20607What is that quaint little girl doing among all those men?
41887What was the end of Lippi''s romance?
43347But what is a noble subject?
43347It is the Queen of Flowers, the Mystic Rose,& c.,& c. But is the rose greater than the cabbage from a purely pictorial point of view?
43347Where should they turn for precept and guidance on the line of their new- found principles?
7785Can the hand do before the soul has wrought; Is not our art the servant of our thought?
38967Now why might not this artist''s name become_ Bassino_, in Modena?
38967We read inscribed upon it in ancient character the two following lines:-- Quis opus hoc finxit?
38967Wherefore is it then that in the published catalogues we meet with so very scanty a list of his pictures, nearly all esteemed excellent?
41886With what then?
41886Do you think the choice you have made will do for the purpose?
41886these were your pictures?"
20915Now, not knowing what pigments are chosen or how they are used, never standing by and watching the progress of the work, how can Science lend her aid?
20915Will that orange where Indian yellow figures ever see old age, or that green with indigo, or purple with cochineal lake?
13477Watchman, what of the Night?
13477A leaflet entitled"What should a picture say?"
13477What law can lovers move?
40896But, logically, why is it not the most natural as well as the correct basis for this work?
40896From the nursery to the university we are constantly asking two questions,"What is it?"
40896Why then, should we not have in our paints imitations of the solar green, orange and violet as well as the red, yellow and blue?
40896and"Why is it?"
44340His master, having looked him over, inquired:"So, then, you have no shirt?"
41798)-1426 John, 1385(?
41798MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR Edited by T. Leman Hare VAN EYCK Hubert, 1365(?
41798Or was it that the message baffled the apprehension of the artist, and left him helpless to respond to the call?
32681Is there not practical wisdom in commencing every day with the steady effort to make as much of it as if it were to be our whole existence?
32681What does it give you?
20019Is it then to be outlined?
20019Is this a white thing, a green thing, or a blue thing?
20019Or, do you think it a dishonor to man to say to him that Death is but only Rest?
20019What then can he mean by not so much as indicating one pebble or joint in the walls of Dumblane?
20019Why, at least, could not Turner have kept it out of sight?"
46915Might not this be the tract which Gori announces to be in the library of the Academy of Cortona[i104]?"
46915Now, if we know that men are able to judge of the works of Nature, should we not think them more able to detect our errors?
39265Do you pity me?
39265What do I mix my colours with? 39265 COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE_ Hilliard(? 39265 JOOST VAN CLEEF( 15001536? 39265 _ By_ NICHOLAS HILLIARD(?). 50843 When did you ever see an angel?"
50843And how better could he depict the winged messengers of the sky than by painting them with the forms of those he loved here below?
50843It is only a step across the world from heaven to earth, and is not love the band that unites them?
50843Was not the Madonna, nine times out of ten, the painter''s own wife?
50843What does it mean?"
50843Why not?
39416''But what use is your book to me if I do n''t understand it?
39416''For what?
39416''Whad poog, Maishter Cainsporough?''
39416''What might it be, sir, if I may make so bold?''
39416Do you think if Van Dyck was to paint you he''d let you be shaved?''
39416What is your lute worth if I have not your book?''
39416Will you come; aye or no?"
30098Could Veronese uphold his picture as decent?
30098Did it, indeed, come down to them from the merchants of Tyre and Carthage?
30098From that wonderful trading race which stretched out its arms all over Europe and penetrated even to our own island?
30098The members of the tribunal demanded"who the boy was with the bleeding nose?"
30098What can be more sympathetic as a personality than the Ariosto of the National Gallery?
30098and"why were halberdiers admitted?"
41974And, at a repast where the Saviour figures, what was that ridiculous buffoon doing with a parroquet on his wrist?
41974But what matters history to Veronese?
41974But what was that for a man who was the most famous and the most fertile artist of his time?
41974What was the significance of that man who was bleeding at the nose?
41974Why were those two soldiers, on the steps of the stairway, one of them drinking and the other eating, clad in German uniform?
42118But what did Fragonard know of political allegories?
42118Had not the owners of the land the right to do what they would with their own?
42118She had need of a teacher; and who better qualified for the business than her townsman, the famous Fragonard?
42118What more natural than that Fragonard should become her master?
42118what enthusiasm had he for the famous days of the Revolution?
42118what were caricature or satire to him, any more than the heroic splendour of Greece and Rome?
22690Are the Madonnas of Murillo anything but a transcript of the women of Andalusia?
22690But are not others chargeable with some incongruities?
22690The portraits of Holbein are of this high- finished manner; and for colouring and similitude what was ever beyond them?
22690The subject represents the moment when the son asks his father,"Where is the sacrifice?"
22690What impression feels he who for the first time casts a glance over the immense scenery of that work?
22690Would so great a master of tone as Reynolds have forgot this master- key if he had found it in the picture?
22690wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?"
42952''Am I to have nothing more than this?''
42952Do you wonder at yon fair tower which holds the sacred bells?
42952E. H. AND E. W. BLASHFIELD''ITALIAN CITIES''When we ask, where did Giotto get the wonderful power of expression that he shows in his work?
42952For I am Giotto-- what need is there to tell of my work?
42952Giotto di Bondone BORN 1266(?
42952a funeral procession came forth from the gates; and of those who followed weeping he inquired,''Who is dead?''
42952we reply, a little from masters and a great deal from himself; but if we are asked, how did he learn to make a wall effective by color and patterns?
41835Are your two pictures,_ Peace_ and_ War_, still in your possession?
41835But are these paintings to be classed with religious art?
41835Do you happen to have what I need ready made, as you did the other time?"
41835Is not this a beautiful homage to French art, of which Puvis de Chavannes was one of the most glorious exponents?
41835Is there anything more adorably exquisite than the gesture of the infant stretching out its plump arms towards its father?
41835Is there in existence a more admirable argument against war and its horrors?
41835Wait until the municipality, through slow economies, was in a position to order the picture?
41835What was to be done?
41835Will they serve your purpose?"
27759).--Battlefield(?)
27759CVPIDVSQ( Cupidusque?)
27759Death of Lucretia(?).
27759In one He reproves S. Peter(?
27759On one side are hurrying Apollo and Daphne(?
27759Stirling, Glentyan, Scotland(?
27759_ From the Collection of Napoleon III._ SEVEN HALF- FIGURES IN VARIOUS COSTUMES(?).
27759and VTRIVSQ( Utriusque?)
14056--"Why, then, my dear sir, has he never been received at the Salons, and not even been decorated at the age of sixty- five?"
14056But are you the first to endure them?
14056Have you more genius than Chateaubriand and Wagner?
14056He was doubtful about exhibiting it, but Baudelaire decided him and wrote to him on this occasion these typical remarks:"You complain about attacks?
14056If Leonardo was a great painter, are Turner and Monet not painters at all?
14056What, then, is the painter to do, who is anxious to approach, as near as our poor human means will allow, that divine fairyland of nature?
14056Who would have believed it?
14056Why did n''t you speak to me about him?"
14056Why should a group of men deliberately choose to paint mad, illogical, bad pictures, and reap a harvest of public derision, poverty and sterility?
14056exclaimed he,"you know him?
40251But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? 40251 ***** Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the king-- Else wherefore born? 40251 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 40251 Here he set his precious burden gently down, and looking with wonder at the child, asked,Who art thou, child?
40251Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?
40251Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou?
40251The fame of his preaching reached Jerusalem, and the Jews sent priests and Levites to ask him,"Who art thou?"
40251Whence comes this fear I can not quell?
40251Why should I shake And tremble for the fate of one whom scarce These eyes have looked on twice?
40251Why should my sire''s conditions seem too hard?
36931But suppose,replied Constable,"Gaspar could rise from his grave, do you think he would know his own picture in its present state?
36931What are you doing with your umbrella up?
36931A happy life?
36931Can you not see him drawing from each place fresh and dewy inspiration?
36931Did Constable, I wonder, realise that his work was nearly done?
36931Did he not always carry with him upon his journeys Claude''s picture of"Hagar"?
36931Loved art?
36931Why?
12657Are we to place here, as Crowe and Cavalcaselle do, the_ Venus and Cupid_ of the Tribuna and the_ Venus with the Organ Player_ of the Prado?
12657Is it not to insult one of the greatest masters of all time thus to assume that he would have designed what we now see?
12657Is this the canvas now in the Wallace Collection, but not as yet publicly exhibited there?
12657Margarita_ means one and the same canvas--_The Figure of St. Margaret in a Landscape_?
12657Or is it perhaps that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have spoilt us in this respect?
12657PEN DRAWING BY TITIAN(?)
45129How many might in time have wise been made, Before their time, had they not thought them so? 45129 Is''t a time to talk When we should be munching?"
45129What artist e''er was master of his trade Yer he began his prenticeship to know?
45129_ Ibid._"To spur beyond Its wiser will the jaded appetite, Is this for pleasure?
36932O, Grevell, what shall I dow? 36932 Did she love him? 36932 Did the architect of this new house wish subtly to suggest that he, like Lord Thurlow, belonged to the Sir Joshua faction? 36932 Does the large white hat, tied with blue ribbons beneath her chin, thatMiss Cumberland"wears, suit the lady?
36932Forgotten?
36932Is it intentional, I wonder?
36932Remembered not?
36932Twenty years later, in 1831, Croker''s contemptuous query,"What is a Ramsey or a Romney worth now?"
36932Who That Reynolds or that Romney drew Was ever half so fair as you Or is so well forgot?
36932is Romney at work for it?
36932what shall I dow?"
41492Do you think now that you could make_ me_ see the beauty of that picture?
41492To me,he adds,"it is interesting as a picture of my mother; but what can or ought the public to care about the identity of the portrait?"]
41492And if they were horses and carts, how in the name of fortune were they to get off?"
41492But what could be a more strange spectacle than the revolutionary Whistler in the presidential chair of the staidest of art societies?
41492There was a time when Whistler''s pictures were hissed when they were put on the easel at Christie''s?
41492Was it a telescope or a fire- escape?
41492Was it like Battersea Bridge?
41492What was that structure in the middle?
41492What were the figures at the top of the bridge?
39996Besides, would not his style almost invariably resemble that of Francia, at least in the works he produced at Bologna?
39996R. Footnote 3:"Oh dissi lui non se''tu Oderisi, L''onor d''Agubbio, e l''onor di quell''arte Che alluminar è chiamata a Parisi?
42828A common question at the Royal Academy is"Where are the Sargents?"
42828And the imagination for past associations, who have this more than the Americans?
42828In what provinces close to nature are they wandering, since, striving to paint the face before them, they paint another face?
42828Is not Art always difficult?
42828We have said they paint as they think; who but the amateur always thinks at his best?
42828Who is more modern than Sargent-- and I am trying to think has he ever painted a modern room-- that is, a room with modern things in it?
42828[ Illustration] I Was there ever a more romantic time than our own, or a people who took everything more matter- of- factly?
45332Arcanum habeat quo pennam formet ut habilis sit et ydonea ad scribendum...... Habeat dentem canis(?)
45332Et spectaculum habeat ne ob errorem moram disspendiosam(?).
45332Habeat etiam pumicem mordacem et planulam ad pactandum(?)
45332He should have the tooth of a dog(?)
45332The scribe should have an_ epicaustorium_[304] covered with leather; he should have an_ arcanum_( pen- knife?)
45332The scribe should sit in an arm chair, with arms raised on each side to support a desk or?
21561But has tradition any foundation in fact?
21561If the whole scene were indeed by Benozzo, would not the difference of hand between master and scholar be more strikingly evident?
21561What other figure, however beautiful, can show such just proportions, solid form, and majestic design, such a strong character and expression as this?
21561Why not?
41734Assuming that a passage such as this_ can_ be illustrated, and that without the use of colour, is his a good illustration?
41734Begin-- where?
41734Could there be a better frontispiece?
41734Does Dürer owe his greatness to the strain of foreign blood?
41734Does it reproduce the spirit and meaning of St. John, or only the words?
41734The Beginnings?
41734Then what is the inference?
41734Was it ever thus?
41734What was it that Dürer had inscribed on the Apostle Panels?
41734Where do things begin; when and why?
41734With the Beginnings?
30262Landseer and Maclise we know; and Millais and Holman Hunt; but who is Leighton?
30262We would venture to ask,says this ingenious critic,"why the divine psalmist has so small a brain?
30262Powers when asked,"Shall I make him an artist?"
30262R.A."VIEW OF ASSIOUT(?)
30262The rest repeat in pleasing variety the usual motives of oriental design, viz., vines, cypresses, pinks and vases, doorways(?
30262What would they be worth now?
30262[ 1871?].
42114Who the devil are you?
42114--"Who''ll buy?"
42114He is holding up a herring, and on the canvas some one has scratched,"WIE BEGEERT?"
42114She knew Franz was painting other couples and getting wealth and fame-- why not their own?
42114Was he dissolute?
42114Was he idle?
42114Was he ill?
42114Was it the natural change of life, or was it the effect of self- indulgence?
42114Were there not painters on the spot, and what about Rembrandt, he was not very busy in 1637?
42114Where, may we ask, are his studio canvases, his early panel portraits, and all the thousand- and- one sketches and freaks of a young artist?
42114Who shall say?
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7222How much more impossible then to depict the incomprehensible soul in which all others have their being?
7222Is it not likely that if Bugiardini had any hand in the work, it was to finish these figures?
7222Now, if the first assertions were true why should he retract them?
7222What would Greek sculpture have been without the deified personifications of the mysterious powers of nature which inspired it?
7222Who can draw one soul?
38848Is pride a fault, or must one develop one''s pride? 38848 Where are you going?"
38848Who is he then? 38848 As he put it himself,Is it necessary to be modest, or, in other words, an imbecile?"
38848But where was Gauguin to find his religion?
38848Can one help admiring his tenacity?
38848He finished a large picture, a sort of strange allegory of despair, entitled_ D''où venons nous?
38848How then had they reached Tahiti?
38848If I have painted daubs, why set out to gild them, to deceive people as to their quality?"
38848Let me die in peace, forgotten, or if I ought to live, let me live in peace, forgotten.... What matter if I am the pupil of Bernard or Sérusier?
38848Où allons nous?_ and then took arsenic.
38848Que sommes nous?
38848To envisage happiness, is that not a foretaste of Nirvana?
38848What matter?
38848When the Emperor asked him:"But where are your pictures?"
38848_ Le Christ au Jardin d''Oliviers_ echoes the awful cry,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
17215Are these for sale?
17215But where can I see the originals? 17215 What does that mean?"
17215How did the discovery of that horde of capable experts strike the imagination of our golfer?
17215Is it fantastical to assume that his interest in Rembrandt dated from that little golf etching?
17215Now he is fairly started on his journey through the Rembrandt country, and as he pursues his way, what is the emotion that dominates him?
17215Now what is the meaning of this little story?
17215The obliging youth scanned the document and said--"Which do you wish to see?
17215What is there to say about such a life?
17215What was it that moved him?
17215What was the secret of this gaiety?
17215Who dares to say that Rembrandt was disloyal to nature?
17215would his imagination be stirred?
41621And yet who would have them different?
41621Do you remember his"Fête Champêtre"at Dresden, with the little exquisite figure of a woman seated on the ground turning away from the spectator?
41621His art?
41621His life?
41621How would Titian have painted yonder dark woman of the warm colour and deep red hair walking down the glade?
41621If there was so much of interest in Valenciennes for a painter, what might not the capital offer of spectacular delights?
41621Is it rose and white?
41621What can be said of this picture, or of the more finished replica at Potsdam, that has not already been said a score of times?
41621What colour are his beautiful garments?
41621What colour is it?
41621What is impressionism, and what is pointillism?
41621Who can describe Watteau''s colour or his fashion of trickling on the paint?
41694How does he do it?
41694Which was Turner''s house?
41694Book?
41694But what does it matter?
41694I wonder what they think the sea''s like?
41694Is not his influence the most enduring?
41694Kind?
41694On the"Graduate of Oxford"attempting to soothe him, he burst out--"What would they have?
41694She said:"What have you been discussing this summer morning?"
41694So the Master seemed old- fashioned, did he?
41694The flame of Turner?
41694Was he a medical man?"
41694What Turner?
41694Which is the greatest?
41694Which was it?
41694Who would have one inch changed?
32787O God, is Luther dead? 32787 ); Charlemagne(?). 32787 ); Ecce Homo(?). 32787 ); Nativity(? 32787 ); Pietà(?). 32787 COLOGNE.--_Museum,_--Drummer and Piper; Madonna(?). 32787 DRESDEN MUSEUM.--Christ Bearing the Cross; the Crucifixion; a Hare; Lucas van Leyden; Madonna and Saints(?). 32787 J. F. Russell,--Crucifixion; Christ''s Farewell to Mary(?). 32787 Joachim and Joseph, 1523; St. Simeon and Bishop Lazarus, 1523; Death of the Virgin; a Young Man, 1500; Pietà(? 32787 O Erasmus of Rotterdam, where dost thou remain? 32787 Peter and John, 1526; a Knight in Armor(? 32787 Who will henceforth explain to us so clearly the holy Gospel? 32787 _ Doria Palace,_--St. Eustace(? 32787 _ FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge,_--Annunciation(?). 32787 _ Hampton- Court Palace,_--Young Man, 1506; St. Jerome(?). 32787 _ Lyons,_--Madonna and Child Giving Roses to Maximilian(?). 32787 _ Rath- Haus_,--Emperor Sigismund(? 32787 how did the matronly Agnes endure such tradings? 34585 But how imitated him? 34585 If in this faculty be included all that is difficult, philosophical, and sublime, who shall compete with him in the sovereignty of art? 34585 If we deprive him of this work, which is the only one which can be called his own, what can he have executed in all this time? 34585 Who ever sought with such eagerness the works of Solario? 34585 Why did he himself and his scholars work in distemper? 34585 Why did the Sicilians, as we have seen, pass over to Venice, where Antonello resided, to instruct themselves, and not confine themselves to Naples? 34585 [ 102] On the other hand, who, beyond Naples and its territory, had at that time heard of Colantonio? 34585 da Bruggia? 19863 ''Just by Mrs Roper sits Sir Thomas''s lady in an elbow- chair(? 19863 ), died in 1650(? 19863 )-1650(?) 19863 )-1682--HOBBEMA, 1638- 1709--BERCHEM, 1620- 1683--BOTH 1600(?)-1650(?) 19863 )-1682--HOBBEMA, 1638- 1709--BERCHEM, 1620- 1683--BOTH 1600(?)-1650(?) 19863 )-1682--HOBBEMA, 1638- 1709--BERCHEM, 1620- 1683--BOTH, 1610(? 19863 --DU JARDIN, 1625- 1678--ADRIAN VAN DE VELDE, 1639- 1672--VAN DER HEYDEN, 1637- 1712--DE WITTE, 1607- 1692--VAN DER NEER, 1619(? 19863 A nobleman said to Lely,''How is it that you have so great a reputation, when you know, as well as I do, that you are no painter?'' 19863 Aart Van der Neer was born in 1619(? 19863 But is he right in his indignation? 19863 Could anything be truer than the breadth of the chiaroscuro? 19863 DU JARDIN, 1625- 1678--ADRIAN VAN DE VELDE, 1639- 1672--VAN DER HEYDEN, 1637- 1712--DE WITTE, 1607- 1692--VAN DER NEER, 1619(? 19863 Do n''t you see how the picture would be spoilt, and the story of complete contrast left untold? 19863 Jan Both, born in 1610(? 19863 Perhaps you will ask, what merit had the old paintings of the middle ages to compensate for so many great disadvantages and incongruities? 19863 STILL ALIVE IN 1667--TERBURG, 1608- 1681--NETCHER, 1639- 1684--BOL, 1611- 1680--VAN DER HELST, 1613- 1670--RUYSDAEL, 1625(? 19863 [ 22] Guido said of Rubens:''Does this painter mix blood with his colours?'' 19863 [ 54] Jacob Ruysdael was born in 1625(?) 44082 That''s the way you see your model?"
44082What else can I bring?
440826):"And one shall say unto Him, What are these wounds in Thine hands?
44082But even in the first picture how much of all the admiration excited was due to the painter and how much to the model?
44082But one may question how far his figures, and the environment of them, are true in colour?
44082By what possible means could it be supplied?
44082Can an Englishman, a matter- of- fact being who finds his happiness in comfort and a practical sphere of action, be at the same time a Romanticist?
44082Emilie Isabel Barrington: Why is Mr. Millais our Popular Painter?
44082How was it possible that England should have taken the lead upon this occasion also?
44082Is it merely pity that is in her eyes?
44082Is it that our eyes are by nature less delicate?
44082Is not London the most modern town in Europe?
44082Where in nature are the rounded forms which Raphael, the first Classicist, borrowed from the antique?
44082Who shall kiss in the father''s own city, With such lips as he sang with again?
44082YES OR NO?]
44082or is everything in the Japanese only the result of a more rational training?
18371And when nine months were fulfilled to Anna, she brought forth, and said to the midwife,''What have I brought forth?'' 18371 19), not knowing what was meant, they asked one by one, with pauses between,Is it I?"
18371And here arises the important question: Did Giotto know that this was all that was looked for by his religious patrons?
18371But had they understood it in the sense we now understand it, they would never have each asked,"Lord, is it I?"
18371But what, it may be said by the reader, is the use of the works of Giotto to_ us_?
18371Giotto looking after him, exclaimed,''Who is he?
18371Giotto, who was most courteous, took a leaf( of vellum?
18371He, thinking himself mocked, said,''Shall I have no other drawing than this?''
18371In particular it has blinded us to the meaning of Christ''s words,"Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a traitor and accuser?"
18371In the Baptistery at Ravenna, the rope is supported, not by an angel, but by the river- deity_ Jordann_( Iordanes?
18371What arms does he bear?
18371What is he?
18371Why should we fret ourselves to dig down to the root of the tree, when we may at once enjoy its fruit and foliage?
18371_ And one who bore a fat and azure swine Pictured on his white scrip, addressed me thus:_ What dost thou in this deep?
18371and another,"Is it I?"
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29150?
29150?
29150Below the latter is a tablet on which, in Latin, are the words of Job:"My short life, does it not come to an end soon?"
29150EARLIEST INDIVIDUAL WORKS( BEFORE GOING TO BASEL)?
29150Grand- Ducal Collection, Darmstadt( superbly restored); and? Dresden Gallery.
29150Is it to be supposed that he thought the dwellings of our Lord were palaces?
29150Is there time still to escape?
29150Or that he could not paint a stable?
29150These hymns are"Come Holy Ghost"(_ Kom Heiliger Geyst Herregott_) and"Mortal, wouldst thou live blessedly?"
29150What He bore for us, shall we shrink from so much as realising?
29150What if he break the promise given when he was over- persuaded in the market- place the other day?
29150What would one not give to see the lost work these wings covered?
29150When the portrait was labelled Sforza, however, who could its obviously great painter be but Leonardo?
29150still too dear Illusion?
43085''How will you do that?''
43085''Then you are going to paint my portrait?''
43085But what of his paintings?
43085But where in the world did M. Meissonier come across all those delightful little rarities in books?
43085But why give to an artistic reproduction more relative importance than the originals have in reality?
43085Does Meissonier surpass it, and are his pictures_ too small_?
43085Granted: but what is the limit?
43085Have we cause to regret this?
43085He is evidently saying to himself:''Where the deuce could I borrow a louis or even a crown?''
43085How did the artist get his start?
43085How do they interest me in real life?
43085Is it necessary to say after this that no painter ever informed himself with such religious zeal in regard to costumes and accessories?
43085Is there any need of saying that the public failed to distinguish a work which did not sufficiently distinguish itself?
43085Meissonier?''
43085Was the painter beginning to change his manner?
43085pose for Solférino?
12626But should not such an assumption as this, well founded as it may appear in the main, be made with all the allowances which the situation demands?
12626On which of these visits he took with him and completed at Ferrara(?)
12626Peter Martyr_, to say that he has, take him all in all, been surpassed in this the highest branch of his art?
12626Yet who would venture to compare him on equal terms to the painter of the_ Assunta_, the_ Entombment_ and the_ Christ at Emmaus_?
17395''No, but do n''t you wish you could?''
17395CHAPTER V THE RENAISSANCE Who is this old gentleman in our next picture reading so quietly and steadily?
17395CHAPTER XIV TURNER I wonder which of you, if seeing this picture for the first time, will realize that you are looking at the old familiar Thames?
17395Can you see him?
17395Do n''t you know how good a bad drawing sometimes seems?
17395Does he not look absorbed in his book?
17395Henry VIII., therefore, had to look to foreign lands for his court painter, and where was he to come from?
17395How do you see things?
17395How, then, can the fire of sunshine be depicted at all?
17395I wonder if you know how prints are made?
17395I wonder whether it reminds you of anything you know?
17395It''s not a bit like any room we can find anywhere in the world to- day, but would n''t it be joyful if we could?
17395Of course you all know the story of Ulysses and the one- eyed giant, Polyphemus, in the_ Odyssey_ of Homer?
17395One day he was noticed by a Spanish noble, who said to him,''Does my Lord occupy his spare time in painting?''
17395The merit of their work is unchallenged; and how could they paint physical beauty by them scarce ever seen?
17395What else is there?
17395Who can guess if it will concur with that of future decades-- of future centuries?
17395Who can surely pronounce the consensus of opinion to- day?
17395With the sweetness and grace of modern childhood filling our eyes, may we not well close this children''s book?
17395You may believe this if you like, but how do you then account for the leopard and the peacock living in such harmony together?
17395You may remember that the Netherlands had belonged in the fifteenth century to the Dukes of Burgundy?
17395diptych does it not seem to you as though a long era divided the two?
29532Do you know what I mean when I say tone, value, light, shade, quality, movement, construction, etc.?
29532What is Venice in this picture?
29532What is the merit of a painter?
29532And yet?
29532But what if one may?
29532Could anything be more natural and unassuming?
29532For guidance from the hand that holds neither brush nor chisel?
29532How indeed would this have been possible with such a vast multitude of figures?
29532Is it to be wondered at, then, that the foundation of the English School of painting should have been postponed for a century more?
29532Look at the_ Laughing Cavalier_, and ask if it is not the man himself, as Hals saw and knew him, not a faked up hero?
29532Ne peus tu pas, en admirant Les Maitres de la Grece, ceux d l''Italie Rendre justice également A ceux qu''a nourris ta Patrie?
29532S. John is seen with folded arms, fast asleep, while others of the Apostles with the most burlesque gestures are asking,''Lord, is it I?''
29532SANDRO BOTTICELLI(?)
29532The guild of merchants, being convinced[ Illustration: PLATE II.--SANDRO BOTTICELLI(?)
29532What was the style of Catalonia?
29532Who would have thought it?
29532Who would have thought that they wanted to have their portraits painted?
29532ne sont- ce point des fils qui ramènent le cadavre de leur père à la poussière?
26703And Jesus said,"Whose is this image and superscription?"
26703As the men talked, a traveler joined them and asked:"What is it ye talk about and are sad?"
26703But we do not deserve it, do we?
26703Did I not command you to depart?
26703Did you ever see a cuter little girl than this one in the picture?
26703Do you know I could live with that picture and feel that I always had something to make me happy?
26703Do you see the tower at the left in the picture?
26703Do you suppose that when he was famous as a painter he ever saw those boys?
26703Do you think that she can tell us?
26703Have you ever seen a flax wheel?
26703How could a good- for- nothing horse that could not plow do such a wonderful thing as fly?
26703I wonder if these willows make a harp or a lyre with their tall stalks reaching to the sky?
26703If she can not, who can?
26703Now what do you think of the"Sleeping Girl"?
26703She had the money-- her father''s money-- but why should she be troubled with her old father?
26703The angry farmer tried to make him work, but how could he when he had no courage?
26703The stranger said,"What things?"
26703These men are all asking,"Is it I?"
26703WORDSWORTH Can you not almost hear this girl singing?
26703Was anything ever more simple?
26703Was ever anything so silly?
26703Was ever anything so soft and velvety?
26703What do you think he did?
26703What do you think the authorities did?
26703When the boy proudly displayed his flag, every one asked:"Where did you get such a wonderful flag?"
26703When the picture was finished, and the people went to see it, many of them asked,"Where is the picture?"
26703Where did they go?
26703Why have you not obeyed?"
26703still here?
22500And why,replied the doctor,"should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence?
22500Mr. Alderman A----,continued the Chamberlain,"which would you choose, sir?"
22500_ Madness!_ thou chaos of the brain,} What art, that pleasure giv''st and pain?} 22500 FOOTNOTE:[ 3]What signifies,"says some one to Dr. Johnson,"giving halfpence to common beggars?
22500Guest divine, to outward viewing; Ablest minister of ruin?
22500Hast thou a son?
22500If this is not rural felicity, what is?
22500Needs must thy kind paternal care, Lock''d in thy chests, be buried there?
22500The headstrong course of youth thus run, What comfort from this darling son?
22500What heart, so void of sensibility, as not to heave a pitying sigh at their deplorable situation?
22500What schemes will nature not embrace T''avoid less shame of drear distress?
22500Who can behold the magistrate, here, without praising the man?
22500Why these bolts and massy chains, Squint suspicions, jealous pains?
22500Why, thy toilsome journey o''er, Lay''st thou up an useless store?
22500my stars, what''s this about?
22500where''s the tea- kettle?"
39000WILL YOU BUY?
39000:"Do you want a Model?"
39000AFTER AN ETCHING BY N. MUXEL Sophonisba Anguisciola, Painter 1533-(?
39000Are not some of its qualities instinct with manhood, while others delight us with the most winning graces of a perfect womanhood?
39000Are you not inclined to marvel, almost, how a woman had the courage to depict, without flinching, the sad truths of such bitter poverty?
39000CONSUÉLO:"Will You Buy?"
39000Does Elisabetta Sirani take precedence of Lady Waterford?
39000Does not genius make its appeal as a single creative agent with a two- fold sex?
39000FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALINARI Lavinia Fontana Zappi, Painter 1552- 1614(?)]
39000FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY W. A. MANSELL& CO., AFTER THE ORIGINAL PICTURE IN A PRIVATE COLLECTION Judith Leyster, Painter 1600(?
39000HUNTER, MRS. MARY Y.:"Joy and the Labourer,"Frontispiece;"Olivia,"126;"Where Shall Wisdom be Found?"
39000Had Steele an inkling of this magnificent compliment when he said that to love the Lady Elizabeth Hastings was a liberal education?
39000Is it not both masculine and feminine?
39000Is it not the very music of a woman''s rationalism?
39000Is not that pathetic?
39000Judith Leyster, Painter 1600(?
39000Lady Elizabeth Butler, Painter] PREFACE What is genius?
39000REPRODUCED FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWIDEIN Madame Lucas- Robiquet, Painter"DO YOU WANT A MODEL?"
39000Sophonisba Anguisciola or Angussola, Painter 1533(?
39000WILL YOU BUY?
39000What can be said about Mrs. Margaret Carpenter?
39000What has"quelled evil?"
39000Where is there a woman artist equal to any man among the greatest masters?"
39000Why compare the differing genius of women and men?
31623But is such refinement possible? 31623 Well, but,"it is still answered,"is it not, indeed, ungenerous to speak ill of the dead, since they can not defend themselves?"
31623[ 123] He was not, then, a brother while he was alive? 31623 ''Hath he not sped?''
3162312:"Shall horses run upon the rock; will one plow here with oxen?"
31623And again:"My lord constable, the armor that I saw in your tent to- night, are those stars, or suns, upon it?"
31623But can he unravel the mystery of the punishment of NO sin?
31623Can he entirely account for all that happens to a cab- horse?
31623Did I say basalt for my slab, sons?
31623Do not the conditions of the mountain peasant''s life, in the plurality of instances, necessarily forbid it?"
31623Had mankind offered no worship in their mountain churches?
31623How could He then have been tempted as we are?
31623How else Shall ye contrast my frieze to come beneath?
31623How many travellers hearing the term"cipollino"recognize the intended sense of a stone splitting into concentric coats, like an onion?
31623Is a man to be praised, honored, pleaded for?
31623Is he to be maligned, dishonored, and discomforted?
31623Swift as a weaver''s shuttle fleet our years: Man goeth to the grave, and where is he?
31623Then, if you are to do this,--if you are to put off your kindness until death,--why not, in God''s name, put off also your enmity?
31623Was all that granite sculpture and floral painting done by the angels in vain?
31623Was it then indeed thus with us, and so lately?
31623What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm?
31623Why should they?
31623Worldly cardinals or nuncios he can fathom to the uttermost; but where, in all his thoughts, do we find St. Francis, or Abbot Samson?
31623or is our brother''s blood in general not to be acknowledged by us till it rushes up against us from the ground?
29906Hath white and red in it such wondrous power That it can pierce through the eyes into the heart?
29906Who is she that looketh forth as the morning; fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
29906And in what sense may the terms Right and Wrong be attached to its conclusions?
29906And in what sense may the terms Right and Wrong be attached to its conclusions?
29906By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be determined?
29906By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be determined?
29906Compare Solomon''s Song where the imagination stays not at the outside, but dwells on the fearful emotion itself?
29906Do they show finer characters of form than can be developed by the broader daylight?
29906Have they more perfection or fulness of color?
29906How did Shakspeare_ know_ that Virgilia could not speak?
29906How, therefore, are the signs of sin to be known and separated?
29906In order that anything may be directed, an end must be previously determined: What is the faculty that determines this end?
29906Is it a face, or but an eyeless skull?
29906The_ cenacolo_( of Raffaelle?)
29906To what authority, when men are at variance with each other on this subject, shall it be deputed to judge which is right?
29906What canon or test is there by which we may determine of these impressions that they are or are not_ rightly_ esteemed beautiful?
29906What from beneath his helm- like bonnet scowls?
29906What taste or judgment was it that directed this combination?
29906Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wo nt to set the table on a roar?"
29906Why need they be always flayed?
29906Why not paint these as Mr. Mulready paints other things, as they are?
29906and of what frame and make, how boned and fleshed, how conceived or seen, is the end itself?
29906or is there any such authority or canon at all?
29906or is there nothing more than taste or judgment here?
42352Giotto, having observed the man and considered his manner, replied nothing more than--''When wilt thou have it finished?'' 42352 ''And are they not here,''rejoined the painter;''is there one wanting?'' 42352 ''And what didst thou require me to paint?'' 42352 ''Lord, help thee, for thou must needs be a special simpleton; why, if a man were to ask thee,Who art thou?"
42352''Will it seem to thee a trumpery matter to pay for it?''
42352Art thou not ashamed of thyself?
42352Hath some one sent this man to make a jest of me?
42352If we ca n''t have all, what should we choose first and cling to most securely?
42352Is it perfection of form, or of colour, intensity of feeling, or depth of meaning?
42352Is not this a greater monument to Cimabue''s name, than any amount of Madonnas carried in triumph through the"street of gladness?"
42352Our great personage, of whom nobody knew anything, having returned for his shield, marches forward and inquires,''Master, is the shield painted?''
42352PAGE_ Annunciation._ By Giotto, 59 Arena Chapel, Padua, 69"Frescoes in, 76"Note by Mr. Ruskin on, 84 Arnolfo di Cambio, 21 Arnolfo di Lapi( Cambio?
42352Such is the life of our old master as far as we can gather it from the scanty materials before us: to what does it amount?
42352The question remains whether the lower row of frescoes were executed by Giotto at any subsequent period?
42352Then Giotto, being left alone, began to think within himself,''What may this mean?
42352Who art thou?
42352Who ever derived real pleasure from a photograph of a landscape?
42352Who were thy forefathers?
42352[ 58] Is not this such a surrounding as we might best desire for our painter''s work?
42352what arms dost thou bear?
31934Countess,I asked her,"are you not afraid of being robbed?"
31934Frogères, why have you not been to see me?
31934How can I help it?
31934How do you think I sing?
31934Well, who am I, then?
31934What is all this for?
31934What is the matter with you?
31934What is the use of living; what is the use of taking care of oneself?
31934Why so?
31934You are not aware, then,she replied,"that you are going to the worst inn of the world?
31934Being at her house again a fortnight later, I made the inquiry,"You are very happy, I trust, now that you are married to him?"
31934But the Queen looked up at me and said most amiably,"I was waiting for you all the morning yesterday; what happened to you?"
31934But what were we to do?
31934CHAPTER XIII GOOD- BY TO RUSSIA DEPARTURE FROM MOSCOW-- NEWS OF THE DEATH OF PAUL-- PARTICULARS OF HIS ASSASSINATION-- ET TU BRUTE?
31934Departure from Moscow-- News of the Death of Paul-- Particulars of His Assassination-- Et tu Brute?
31934Do you not know that it is nearly twenty degrees?"
31934He came up to me and said, in the midst of the profound silence that reigns at all these parties,"Do n''t you think these gatherings are enjoyable?"
31934Her obliging civility did not prevent her from asking me,"Have you not brought another gown?"
31934How could you go out this evening?
31934She answered in a jesting tone,"If I were not Queen they would say I looked insolent, would they not?"
31934She replied,"I confess that fur coat is disenchanting; how could you expect me to be smitten with such a figure as that?"
31934She took her two youngest sons, Nicholas and Michael, such small children that Nicholas one day asked her,"Why is papa always asleep?"
31934She took note of this and was so considerate as to say,"Why did you not ask me to pose at your house?"
31934What could I say that would not fall short of the truth?
31934When my friends said,"You love your daughter so madly that it is you who obey her,"I would reply,"Do you not see that she is loved by every one?"
31934Why did she not survive me?
31934Why?"
31934where to go?
37407What_ is_ Death?
37407Aders?)
37407Among the many pictures of Paolo and Francesca that exist, was there ever seen anything like this of Blake''s imagining?
37407And in"Jerusalem"is it not much the same?
37407But how was this to be accomplished?
37407If love is bound, he argued, what merit is there in faithfulness?
37407In the same"Memorable Fancy"from which I have already quoted, Blake continues,"Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
37407Is it not wheat harvest to- day?
37407Is it possible that this page was coloured by Mrs. Blake''s hand in these weird parti- hues?
37407Is it, one wonders, a prophetic announcement of the erection of the Great Western Terminus?
37407Is the artist so completely free in choosing and binding his mysterious flowers?
37407Is this fire an emblem of the fierce elemental fires of Desire and Hatred-- both of which are blind?
37407Or does he only choose and bind together what he must?
37407Reproduced by kind permission of Sir Charles Dilke]"But is such concord always possible?
37407That is all very well, she seems to say,_ you_ help to revive and nourish many creatures, but what do I do?
37407To his astonishment, Blake turned to his wife suddenly and said,''It is just so with us, is it not, for weeks together when the visions forsake us?
37407Underneath is inscribed, significantly enough, the words,"What is man?"
37407We find this doggerel in his Note- book: O dear Mother Outline, of wisdom most sage, What''s the first part of painting?
37407What do we do then, Kate?''
37407What resemblance do you suppose there is between your spirit and his?''
37407What shall I call thee?
37407Where is the existence out of mind, or thought?
37407Who can tell?
37407Who could have written this but Blake?
37407Yet he is bound to exclaim in"Jerusalem,""What may man be?
37407it will be questioned, when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea?"
37407it will be questioned,''when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea?''
37407there_ is_ no answer?
37407where is it but in the mind of a fool?
22125(?)
22125(?)
22125(?)
22125(?)
221251522(?)--1582.
22125= Cracow.= PRINCE CZARTORYSKI, Portrait of(?)
22125= Hampton Court.= Madonna and Saints(?).
22125= Monopoli.= DUOMO, St. Jerome and Donor(?).
22125Annunciation(?).
22125Christ Blessing(?).
22125Crucifixion(?).
22125DONNA LAURA MINGHETTI, Judgment of Paris(?).
22125Dead Christ(?).
22125Death of Peter Martyr(?).
22125Deposition(?).
22125E. Bust of Man in white cap and coat(?).
22125Finding of Moses(?).
22125Head of Young Woman(?).
22125L. MR. R. BENSON, Madonna in Profile(?).
22125LORD ASHBURNHAM, Small Landscape(?).
22125MR. J. P. CARRINGTON, Bust of Man(?).
22125MR. W. B. BEAUMONT: Catena(?).
22125Madonna and Saints(?).
22125Madonna and four Saints(?).
22125Portrait of Man with Staff(?).
22125Portrait of Man(?).
22125Portrait of(?)
22125St. Sebastian being Bound(?).
22125Stoning of Stephen(?)
22125The Saviour(?).
22125This brought an entirely new answer to the question,"Why should I do this or that?"
22125Why should they always have to go to the Doge''s Palace or to some School to enjoy this pleasure?
6932But-- is this_ all_?
6932How did you paint that part of the picture?
6932How is it, dear Cesare that we live in such good friendship, but that in the art of painting we show no deference to each other?
6932Think not?
6932Well, madam, do n''t you see that yourself, in nature? 6932 What in the world did you do that for?"
6932Where are yours, Tintoretto?
6932Who run?
6932Why are you doing that?
6932Why do you always tarry before''The Descent from the Cross?''
6932...''and the others?''
6932After that the artist turned his thoughts toward Italy, but where was the money to come from?
6932Again in a letter written to him by a friend:"How does the''Hay Wain''look now it has got into your own room again?"
6932At another time his host asked the artist,"Do you not find it very difficult to determine where to place your brown tree?"
6932By what light?
6932Correggio( Antonio Allegri), School of Parma, 1494(?)
6932He would start off alone, or with John( Thomas?)
6932Is it possible that Murillo, that servile imitator of my uncle, can be the author of all this grace and beauty of colouring?"
6932Is it the light of the sun?
6932Jesus has just declared that one of them shall betray him, and each in his own way seems to be asking"Lord, is it I?"
6932Kings themselves had to remove their crowns and hats to Julius, and why not Michael Angelo?
6932What must he do in order to get to London and see the world?
6932What other artist would have chosen such a corner of nature for a subject to paint?
6932What should they do?
6932What was to be done?
6932What were they to do?
6932When he became a student of the Academy the keeper, Fuseli, used to look about among the students and cry:"Where is my little dog boy?"
6932Who can look for Breton''s ideal stage peasants from Millet who knew the truth as he saw it every day?
6932Who was to concern himself with saving works of art, when human life was going out wholesale all over the land?
6932Who would see ugly, toil- worn peasants upon his_ salon_ walls?
6932Why not say''doubtful''?"
6932Why, then should I thank them?
6932Will you come?
6932With the doors of the Vatican closed to him, Angelo withdrew, post haste to Florence-- and who can blame him?
6932XI CORREGGIO( ANTONIO ALLEGRI)( Pronounced Cor- rage''jyo Ahl- lay''gree)_ School of Parma_ 1494(?
6932and what could be better practice?"
6932or of the moon?
6932or of the torches?
36347Ah,I returned,"I can trust only in the mercy of the Beneficent; but why, pray, ask me that question?"
36347Are you here alone?
36347Ca n''t you see its beauty, sir?
36347Have you seen other artists painting landscape about here?
36347Hoity- toity, what''s all this? 36347 How old are you?"
36347Is not that Hunt? 36347 Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
36347The Shadow of Death("Is not this the Carpenter"?)
36347Then how did you get to the warehouse at all?
36347Where''s your flock?
36347Who''s there?
36347Are you not yourself convinced?"
36347By what name should he call him?
36347Can you do it again?"
36347Could n''t be better, could he?
36347Do you paint portraits?"
36347He can not expect to prosper, can he, now?
36347He exclaimed,''Oh, I see, it''s my brush, is it?''
36347He took it with,''What''s this?''
36347I appeal to you; is that the way to treat parents?
36347I say, do you ever sell what you do?
36347I say, tell me whether you have begun to paint?
36347In London?
36347Need it be said that there had to be seven Brothers, and that the Brotherhood was to be kept a secret?
36347She returned,"Because the souls of these beings that you have made will be required of you, and what will you say then?"
36347TRANSCRIBER''S NOTES: The following corrections have been made, on page: 16"changed to''( my brush, is it?''
36347This is very well,"she said,"but on the Day of Judgment what will you do?"
36347What could be done?
36347What could these things mean?
36347What did it matter whether the sun went round the earth or the earth went round the sun?
36347What was London?--a mountain?
36347What was he to do?
36347What?
36347Where had he been born?
36347Who and what are they, those careless people in the bright sunshine, letting the sheep eat the corn that kills them and the unripe apples?
36347Will you be here to- morrow?"
36347_ Holman?_ That was not much better.
36347_ Hunt?_ That was no name at all.
36347or a plain?
36347room?
43894Are you fond of music, colonel?
43894CE QUI ME MANQUE À MOI? 43894 Cependant, s''il t''offrait de t''epouser?"
43894Dear M. Robert,said the fashionable guests who visited his studio by the dozen,"could you paint a little brigand, if it is not asking too much?"
43894Have these good people not been born anywhere in particular?
43894Have you seen my last stem?
43894Well, Friend, where a''you going, hay?--what''s your name, hay?--where d''ye live, hay?--hay?]
43894What do you say of our Raphael? 43894 What does it matter?"
43894And which of the old masters has so eloquently rendered the sacred silence of night as Millet has done in his"Shepherd at the Pen"?
43894And who thinks of anything else when Meissonier paints a charge?
43894Are we not satisfied with the Government?"
43894But after all what does it matter whether pictures of the East are true to nature or not?
43894But has he left good pictures behind him or not?
43894CHAPTER XXVI JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET Whence has_ Millet_ come?
43894Could anything be imagined more romantic?
43894Did the Dutch ever run from one place to another?
43894Do you not think him best of all, now that you have seen everything that is fair and beautiful in Italy?"
43894Do you still recall the little tree in Rothschild''s garden, which we caught sight of between two roofs?
43894Does he outweigh them as a painter?"
43894Et où puiserait- on, sinon à la source?
43894For what can the old masters offer us?
43894For-- and here we come to the limitations of his talent-- has Millet as a painter really achieved what he aimed at?
43894He said that his painting recalled no one, and was neither polished nor pretty, and asked:"How can I hope to be popular?
43894How is it that a man of his age can be so influenced by works which are radically opposed to his own?
43894How much longer must we go about, unpicturesque beings, like ugly black bats, in swallow- tail coats and wide trousers?
43894If in the moment when the profound philosopher is pondering over sublime ideas people were to say to him,"Will you teach us the A, B, C?
43894In 1848, during the fighting on the barricades, he asked with childish astonishment:"What is the matter?
43894In a cavalry charge, with the whirling dust and the snorting horses, who thinks of costume?
43894Is not the expression apportioned to every figure, like parts to a theatrical company, and does not the result seem to be strained beyond all measure?
43894Is that merry, enlivening work, as some people would like to persuade us?
43894It is said that our costume is not picturesque, and therefore why should we choose it?
43894Moreover, can a true style be brought into harmony with hoop- petticoats and swallow- tail coats and such vagaries?
43894Portrait of Gavarni 43 Thomas Vireloque 44 Fourberies de Femmes 45 Phèdre at the Théâtre Français 48"Ce qui me manque à moi?
43894Shortly before his death he said to a friend:"What am I to live upon, and how am I to pay for the column?
43894What do they teach us?
43894What is meant by Beauty?
43894When Constable showed him a study he asked:"Where do you mean to place your brown tree?"
43894Yet is not this characterisation in the highest degree exaggerated?
49068Is it true, as Thackeray declared, that ordinary mortals do, indeed, delight to pry into the weakness of the strong, the smallness of the great? 49068 What do you mean?"
49068A little more or less, what is the difference?
49068And does he then in his astounding wisdom believe that a symphony in F contains no other note, but a continued repetition of F, F, F, F, F?...
49068And is the painter absolutely void of poetic conception?
49068And what is an artist?
49068Beauty is confounded with virtue and, before a work of art, it is asked:''What good shall it do?''"
49068But how about Chavannes, Whistler, Israels?
49068But why did he select peacocks?
49068Can all the poetry be contained in the objects themselves and the way they are painted?
49068Did this creature expect white hair and chalked faces?
49068Do they not convey an idea?
49068Do you see what I am driving at?
49068Does he not refute his own contempt by his Barnum- Boulanger- like use of the press?
49068Has it a flavour, a peculiarity of its own, that could be derived from any source except that of American birth and parentage?
49068Have you not noticed that a bunch of cut flowers which looks beautiful in one vase may become ugly in another?
49068He replied in his vigorous fashion:"Can anything be more amazing than the stultified prattle of this poor person?
49068He was every evening at the Students''ball, and as he never got up until ten or eleven in the morning, where was the time for work?
49068He, too, has his heartaches and bitter disappointments, but who ever hears of them?
49068Henri, Reid, Luks, Tarbell, Hawthorne, Clews, R. E. Miller, Lucas, who else?
49068How about Carl Schurz, General Siegel and Roebling, the bridge builder?
49068How did the impressionistic painters arrive at this new style of composition?
49068How many of the younger American painters( alas, our younger men have all passed the threshold of thirty if not of forty) really know their_ métier_?
49068Is his art in any sense American?
49068Is it the subject matter?
49068It was as follows:"May I beg to correct an erroneous impression likely to be confirmed by a paragraph in your last number?
49068Now what do they mean by this?
49068Or does Whistler wish to convince us that he mentally invented a colour scheme and then set out to find the incident?
49068The Bohemian''s life is apart from yours, but why chide him for it?
49068What is a painter?
49068What is there in these pictures produced every year, here and in Paris and everywhere?
49068What is there so fascinating about the Bohemian''s life?
49068What principle rules the construction of a window?
49068What would be the use of having a favourite flower if one could give any reason for liking it?
49068When did photography come into practice?
49068When was impressionism introduced into painting?
49068Who can say?
49068Why should we of the United States, where there are vast territories in very much the same primitive condition as in other emigrant countries?
49068Why?
49068Why?
49068You smile?
34479----"rides?
34479And then, on what does this_ perhaps_ rest?
34479And where, when, or to whom did F. Mino teach painting?
34479But how comes he to found on a_ perhaps_, what he, a little before, had vaunted as a_ clear demonstration_?
34479But is this the effect of his malignity, or of his education?
34479Can we then hesitate as to the originality of any picture, if we give credit to the oil paintings of Michelangiolo?
34479Did not their example open the new path to Cimabue?
34479Did they not afford a ray of light to reviving art?
34479Do we not find in Italy that the followers of Botticelli are inferior to him, and appear to be of earlier date?
34479For what artist ever devoted himself to a new branch, and did not contrive to cultivate and improve it?
34479Has not Petrarca generalized the observation, when he asks,----"Or che è questo Che ognun del suo saper par che si appaghi?"
34479He continues:"Is not the tribune of the church of S. Andrea della Valle, ornamented by Domenichino, among the finest specimens of painting in fresco?
34479If I can not then agree with Baldinucci, can I value his imitator?
34479If there were statutes published in the vulgar tongue in 1291, why was the sanction of the law deferred for 66 years?
34479If we credit so many other stories of the pusillanimity of Andrea, why should we reject this?
34479Into what, then, does the long- boasted invention of Giovanni resolve itself?
34479Is it not more probable that Arnolfo, and Cimabue himself, imitated them?
34479Sen.) But granting that Giotto was not his master, how are we to believe him his fellow student?
34479These are indeed well known facts, but how many are there yet unnoted that are not unworthy of being related, if we wish to avoid falling into error?
34479What could he have said further?
34479What do we learn by being informed of the jealousies of the Florentine artists, the quarrels of the Roman, or the boasts of the Bolognian schools?
34479What further shall we say?
34479Who can tell whether Lucca had not also in those early times an original school, now unknown to us?
34479Would a painter, who had done neither good nor harm to the Florentine school, and to the art, have been invited to Padua?
34479Would the remains of his works have been held in such esteem?
34479might it have been asserted that he was, if not the disciple of Giotto, at least his fellow student in the school of F. Mino?
34479or why are the new not distinguished from the old, as is usual in similar codes?
36427( G. B. Farinati), 1532- 1592, Italian--Vision of Resurrection, 267 Foppa, Vincenzo, 1427(?
36427And what of the struggling artists?
36427And what was the result?
36427But the objects are distinguished by our knowledge and experience, and if we are to eliminate these in one art, why not in another?
36427But where is the Phidian Demeter?
36427Does the impressionist see these things?
36427How can he paint her anointed with ambrosial oil which is ever struggling for freedom to bathe the rolling earth in fragrance?
36427How many artists now would have the patience to make such a mould?
36427If we accept beauty as the expression of emotion, how far have we progressed towards the indicated goal?
36427Let us suppose that a painter could be found who could execute such a figure: how could he isolate it to the mind?
36427Mars may disappear with the wolf, but who can hide the glory of Rome?
36427Now what does this mean?
36427Such was Turner according to Ruskin, but is there any sign of this in his works?
36427There must come a period when the optic or aural nerves can be attuned no further; and is the limit equal in all persons?
36427What human being can appropriately describe the great ideals in art of ancient Greece?
36427What imagination can picture the expansion of art throughout the world had its flight been free since the dawn of history?
36427What is there then to compensate the artist for this limitation?
36427What of these?
36427What was it then that established the eternal fame of her beauty?
36427What were these to do at a time when at the best the outlook was poor?
36427Who would weep when in front of the greatest marvels of Greek sculpture?
36427Why should the artist remember the orgies of Rome, and forget the Grecian pastoral fancies?
36427Why should the dance be turned into a drunken revel?
36427Why trouble about carving in the round when we only actually see in the human figure a flat surface defined by colour?
36427With what other term than"limitless"can we describe the imagination of a Shakespeare?
36427[ 10] Of course these observations are general, for there arises the question, to what extent can the senses and imagination be trained?
36427[ a]_ What is Art?_ Aylmer Maude translation, 1904.
36427[ b]_ What is Art?_ Aylmer Maude Translation.
36427[ c] What can be said of so amazing a declaration?
4998And from this it follows that when the rock of a mountain is reddish the illuminated portions are violet(?)
4998And if you say it is mechanical because it is done for money, who falls into this error-- if error it can be called-- more than you?
4998And it should be worked with fine emery and the mould(?)
4998And why[ painted] objects seen at a small distance appear larger than the real ones?
4998Certainly this is no great achievement; after studying one single thing for a life- time who would not have attained some perfection in it?
4998Do you do any work without pay?
4998Grind verdigris many times coloured with lemon juice and keep it away from yellow(?).
4998HOW WE MAY CONCLUDE THAT A SUPERFICIES TERMINATES IN A POINT?
4998He reads"_ polacca_"="_ avec le couteau de bois[?]
4998If you ask me:"By what practical experience can you show me these points?"
4998If you lecture in the schools do you not go to whoever pays you most?
4998If you want to make blue put iris flowers into it and for red solanum berries(?)
4998MOULD(?).
4998Mercury with Jupiter and Venus,--a paste made of these must be corrected by the mould(?)
4998Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist(?
4998Now which is the worse defect?
4998THE BODY WHICH IS NEAREST TO THE LIGHT CASTS THE LARGEST SHADOW, AND WHY?
4998The mould(?)
4998WHAT BODIES HAVE LIGHT UPON THEM WITHOUT LUSTRE?
4998WHAT BODIES WILL DISPLAY LUSTRE BUT NOT LOOK ILLUMINATED?
4998WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SHADOW THAT IS INSEPARABLE FROM A BODY AND A CAST SHADOW?
4998What is the cause which makes the outlines of the shadow vague and confused?
4998What is the difference between light and the lustre which is seen on the polished surface of opaque bodies?
4998What outlines are seen in trees at a distance against the sky which serves as their background?
4998Which are the muscles which subdivide in old age or in youth, when becoming lean?
4998Which are the parts of the limbs of the human frame where no amount of fat makes the flesh thicker, nor any degree of leanness ever diminishes it?
4998Which colour strikes most?
4998Which is best, to draw from nature or from the antique?
4998Who then can it be-- for the name is a very common one?
4998Why an impetus is not spent at once[ but diminishes] gradually in some one direction?
4998Why are paintings seen more correctly in a mirror than out of it?
4998Why is the shadow_ e a b_ in the first grade of strength,_ b c_ in the second;_ c d_ in the third?
4998Why the eye sees bodies at a distance, larger than they measure on the vertical plane?.
4998Why, to two[ eyes] or in front of two eyes do 3 objects appear as two?
4998XIV):"Va discorrendo ed argomentando Leonardo Vinci in un suo libro letto da me(?)
4998[ Footnote: M. RAVAISSON''S reading varies from mine in the following passages: 1._opero allor[?]
4998and which is more difficult to do outlines or light and shade?
4998are there not pictures to be seen, so like the actual things, that they deceive men and animals?
4998bo[ alloro?
4998polonais[?]_."]
4998should be of Venus and Jupiter impasted over(?)
4998to be blind or dumb?
39330How do you know I''m not?
39330See here, young gentleman, who gave you permission to rummage through that trunkful of old letters?
39330That? 39330 Walkin''round the Cape to Rockport, be ye?
39330What do you want,he inquired,"a painting?"
39330What does he look like?
39330What is it?
39330What size would you like?
39330What,I asked,"is that little star in the lower corner of the canvas?"
39330Where is he?
39330Who is he?
39330Who was she?
39330Why?
39330Would you say I looked like a murderer?
39330Yes, but...?
39330You remember,says he,"I told you only two days ago that I sort of had a hunch that Fritz might be dropping in on us most any time now?
39330''Do n''t you think it''s a little rash, my boy, to risk so much, when if you''d settle down to a good business you''d be sure of a decent living?
39330''What if you fail?
39330And if you do n''t, is it worth going without a wife and children in order to paint pictures, and so come at last to a lonely old age?''"
39330And in the rain?
39330And what about marriage?
39330Because I thought I saw in him the seeds of greatness?
39330Because he was my friend?
39330But how do you know you''ve got it in you to be a great painter?
39330By what divination had this youngster of twenty- four guessed a secret like that?
39330Chauffeur?
39330Do n''t you think you are getting a trifle familiar?"
39330Got a pretty good opinion of yourself, have n''t you?''
39330How can my thin piano score reproduce that richly glowing orchestration?
39330If you marry you''ll have to paint pot boilers, and then what becomes of your art?
39330Is all this too eulogistic?
39330Is it any wonder that the creative minds of to- day are finding themselves driven to social revolution as their art- form?
39330Is this the best we can find for our artists to do?
39330Pretty soft, eh?
39330She addressed herself to Fritz:"You ai n''t an escaped murderer, be ye?"
39330Suppose you wake up some morning and find yourself a middle- aged man and a fizzle?
39330That was all very well for Fritz, but how about his sitter?
39330The dark eyes with a somber light burning in them?
39330The hands; very large and finely muscled?
39330The rugged features and swarthy complexion with a ruddy glow of health in each jowl?
39330Think you have?
39330Was he talkative?
39330Was this our shy, silent Fritz?
39330Was this stranger conversible?
39330Well then, what?
39330What shall I say of those glimpses?
39330What was he but an obscure young painter, thirty years old, with his way to make?
39330What was he to do?
39330What was the use?
39330What was there about him that attracted attention?
39330Which is likely to advance the Kingdom of Heaven on earth more speedily-- the courage of the body, to destroy; or the courage of the mind, to create?
39330Who?
39330Why have I detained you for a tale so plain?
39330Why should I point him out to you among the millions?
39330Would he be for turning back?
39330[ 1][ 1] After all, why not?
39330said he,"is it as late as that?"
43792Do n''t you believe it was so? 43792 Has Terborg or Mieris or Meissonier done the greater work?"
43792Is not Tasso''s life most interesting?
43792What does it matter,writes Hallman,"if we lack all joyous, independent national feeling?
43792Who represents the Holy Ghost with more dignity? 43792 Your portrait?"
43792And even if they had remained fresh, would they yet appeal to the present generation, so much more discriminating in their appreciation of colour?
43792Are they beautiful?
43792But how can he guard himself from that?
43792But how much of it belongs to the nineteenth century?
43792But how was it possible that the German painters stood before them as if struck by lightning?
43792But what must art be in order to produce truth?
43792But where are the virtues to be found?
43792But would anyone dare to mention Mengs and Carstens in the same breath with these giants?
43792Cruelty and death have a poetry of their own: why should Art prudishly abstain from depicting them?
43792Have men grown different, then, or does the painter see further?
43792Is a painter not to be a painter?
43792Is he to turn statues with his brush, and fiddle with his colours, just as it may please their antique taste?
43792Is the sense of the beautiful that impression which is made upon us by a picture by Velasquez, an etching by Rembrandt, or a scene out of Shakespeare?
43792Might it not be possible, with the help of education, for that to be overcome?
43792Of what value is that in comparison with a single real presentation of character?
43792Once on the road to execute statues in paint, the question ensued, Ought we to paint our statues?
43792Que fit la bonne mère?
43792Suddenly a voice was heard to cry:"_ Où es tu, David?
43792To them will he be pioneer or imitator, forerunner or continuator?
43792To what extent has the painter stood independent and on his own peculiar ground?
43792Was ist denn so grosses Neues in der Neuen Kunst geschehen?
43792Was it at all possible to make works of art out of such material?
43792What are the new forms which it has found, the new sentiments to which it has given expression?
43792What does it matter?
43792What imagination was ever peopled with figures more dreadful than those conceived by Shakespeare?
43792What though we do not even try to resuscitate this feeling with wars and battles?
43792Where was that rich colouring in the Italian classics which he had been led to expect from English mezzotints?
43792Who has ever seen such a painter?
43792Who was to give him the easy knightly bearing to play his part suitably to the occasion?
43792Who, pray, wanted to learn fresco painting by hard labour, and swallow the chalk- dust?
43792Who, she will cry, was better fitted to paint Themistocles?
43792Will a different judgment be pronounced in the lapse of time upon the artistic creations of King Ludwig I?
43792Will he take his place by Boecklin and Watts, or by Couture and Ingres?
43792Will they be seen?
43792Would he be a painter?
43792[ Illustration: WHEN WILL GENIUS AWAKE?
43792and had thought it his duty to address to one of the younger painters the question:"Are we then an academy of the Fine or of the Ugly Arts?"
43792asked Prudhon,"with features so troubled and sad?"
12307[ 50] Was ever such a gorgeous idyll? 12307 ***** We have now taken the three universally accepted Giorgiones; how are we to proceed in our investigations? 12307 APPENDIX II DID TITIAN LIVE TO BE NINETY- NINE YEARS OLD? 12307 And this brings us to the question: What was Giorgione''s relation to that great awakening of the human spirit which we call the Renaissance? 12307 Borghini says in his_ Riposo_, 1584:Mori ultimamente di vecchiezza(! not, then, of the plague?
12307But is the evidence of Dolce and Vasari any more trustworthy?
12307But is there any proof that Titian ever copied or repeated any other work of Giorgione?
12307But the question remains, What is Giorgione''s position among the world''s great men?
12307Can he aspire to the position which Titian occupies?
12307Can the same be said of Schubert or Keats?
12307Can this be the picture mentioned by C. and C. as in the possession of the King of Holland?
12307Clearly some tradition existed which told of the youthfulness of the painter, but may we assume that Giorgione was only eighteen at the time?
12307Could a better description be given to fit the character of Caterina Cornaro, as she is known to us in history?
12307DANAE?
12307How is this to be proved?
12307How, then, explain(_ b_), which explicitly gives 1480?
12307In the whole range of painted poetry can the like be found?
12307Is he intellectually to be ranked with the Great Thinkers of all time?
12307Is it not somewhat strange that the first thirty- five years of his life( as is commonly believed) should be a total blank so far as records go?
12307Is it possible he can have painted this splendid head so early in his career?
12307Is the evidence of a Dolce and of a Vasari so free from all objection that it outweighs Titian''s personal statement?
12307Must we really close these very long inquiries by confessing they are beyond our ken?
12307Nevertheless, I venture to agree with Morelli that"we have all the characteristics of an early(?)
12307Now what reliance can be placed on this statement?
12307Pitti Gallery, Florence_ THE CONCERT] Which view is the right one?
12307The cases, therefore, are so far parallel, and the question naturally arises, Did Titian really have any hand in the painting of this portrait?
12307The composition is that of the Adrastus and Hypsipyle picture; the colouring recalls the National Gallery"Golden Age(?)."
12307The picture is a fine thing, in spite of its imperfect condition, and what matter whether Titian or Giorgione be the author?
12307This is an appeal to the old argument that it is not_ good_ enough, whereas the true test lies in the question, Is it_ characteristic_?
12307WHEN WAS TITIAN BORN?
12307What are we to conclude?
12307What artist but Giorgione would have so revelled in the glories of the evening sunset, the orange horizon, the distant blue hills?
12307What more dainty figures, what more delicate hues, what more exquisite feeling could one look for than is here to be found?
12307What then are we to think when yet another-- a fourth-- contemporary statement turns up, differing from any of the three just quoted?
12307Whence, then, comes the story of the ninety- nine years?
12307Where can the like be found in Palma, or even Titian?
12307Who dare say if Titian was really only seventy- six in 1566 when the Aretine visited him?
12307[ 142] But had either of the latter proclaimed a new order of things as early as 1495?
12307[ 148] But, sentiment aside, is there any historical evidence that Titian ever worked at his art in his hundredth year?
12307[ 172] Does not the second letter correct the inexactness of the first?
12307[ 61] Now, the question naturally arises, What relation does the Hampton Court"Shepherd"bear to this"David,"Giorgione''s lost original?
12307_ Bergamo Gallery_ The Golden Age(?).
12307and so Titian''s statement goes for nothing?
12307nal Gallery, London_?
12307that he even attained such a venerable age?
30877= Arrangement.=--But arrangement of what?
30877= Practical Composition.=--Suppose you were going to work with still life, how would you begin?
30877= The Æsthetic Elements.=--What, then, are these æsthetic qualities I have spoken of?
30877= Theory.=--Does this sound unpractical?
30877A long line of hill with a broad field beneath it, for instance, is simple enough, but what is there for you to take hold of?
30877A number of considerations arise at the outset, about which you must make up your mind:-- Is judgment of a picture based on individual liking?
30877And are they easy?
30877And if you do not know what you are aiming at, are you likely to hit anything?
30877And what does a complementary do to a color?
30877Are these not qualities enough for one canvas?
30877As Hunt said,"What do I care about the grammar if you''ve got something to say?"
30877Bluish or warm?
30877But how can you hope to do good work if you do not know what good work is when you see it?
30877But what is a picture?
30877Can you hope to do good work at all?
30877Can you hope to paint well by following your own liking only?
30877Can you not also place the complementary color so that it is not seen, but its influence on the important color is felt?
30877Can you think of any painting being good without it?
30877Could anything be more fatal?
30877Do n''t ask yourself, nor let any one else ask you, Is this So- and- So''s method?
30877Do you see that here are three terms which suggest possibilities of combination of infinite scope?
30877Does it seem mere theory?
30877Hardly necessary to take the trouble to write it down?
30877How are you going to get them?
30877How are you to set about it?
30877How did he do it?
30877How else can life get into art than through the love of what you paint?
30877How far are you to carry detail in your painting?
30877How make it evident?
30877How much leave out?
30877How much paint would you have to take before you got your color?
30877How much room is it to take up?
30877How much shall you take in?
30877How much space do you want that brushful to cover?
30877How, then, should they paint alike?
30877If this is not recognized, what room has originality to work in?
30877If you have no point of view, how can you tell what you are working for, what you are aiming at?
30877Is it a high value on a forehead in full light?
30877Is it a sense of largeness and space, or a beautiful combination of line in the track of a road, or row of trees, or a river?
30877Is it the general color effect of the whole, or a contrast?
30877Is it worth your while to try to do good work?
30877Is the tint light or dark?
30877It is one thing to see it; how are you practically to grasp it so as to get it on canvas?
30877Make a dash at the white, put it in the middle of the palette, and then tone it down to the green?
30877Must not every good picture have them, or some of them, to some extent?
30877Now will you consider also the other elements,"mass"and"color"?
30877Now, if the color is too dark, what will you lighten it with?
30877Red?
30877Suppose you have a heavy dark green to mix, what will you take first?
30877The color is crude?
30877Well, what is the complementary?
30877Well, why not?
30877What are the qualities of it which would be helped if there were more in it?
30877What do they lack as they are?
30877What if you have no others to take their places?
30877What is the green?
30877What is the petal of a flower?
30877What is the prevailing color in it?
30877What proportion of the canvas shall the main object or figure take up?
30877What way are you to turn?
30877What will you do?
30877When you sketch you must have a proper box, and why not have one which is equally serviceable in the house?
30877Where did all this technique come from?
30877Where do they come from?
30877Where is there a strong light against dark and a strong dark against light?
30877Which are you to choose?
30877Which is right?
30877White?
30877Why?
30877Why?
30877Will reddish or yellowish blue do it best?
30877Will white take away the richness of it?
30877Will you consider the quality of"line"?
30877You may get an effect that looks all right, but how long will it stand, and how much better may it not have been if your colors had been good?
30877[ Illustration:= Entrance to Zuyder Zee.=_ Clarkson Stanfield._]= Wave Drawing.=--How shall you"draw"so changeable a thing as a wave?
30877_ Where_ is it to come on the canvas?
30877how?
30877or, Does this belong to this or that school?
30877six dozen?
30877strong or delicate?
18900), Antonio Veneziano( 1312?-1388?
18900), Bissolo( 14641528), Rondinelli( 1440?-1500?
18900), Calvaert( 1540?-1619), Spranger( 1546- 1627?
18900), Diana(?-1500?
18900), Diana(?-1500?
18900), Geldorp( 1553- 1616?
18900), Previtali( 1470?-1525?
189001520- 1540) and Cesare da Sesto( 1477- 1523?)
189001635- 1643), Victoors( 1620?-1672?
1890047.--GIORGIONE(?).
1890075.--MEMLING(?).
18900A recently discovered man, Bernard Strigel( 1461?-1528?)
18900After Giovanni Bellini comes Carpaccio(?-1522?
18900After Giovanni Bellini comes Carpaccio(?-1522?
18900Agnolo Gaddi( 1333?-1396?
18900Another excellent portrait- painter, a pupil of Scorel, was Antonio Moro( 1512?-1578?).
18900Bernardino Luini( 1475?-1532?)
18900Both( 1610- 1650?
18900But what should take its place in art?
18900Catena(?-1531) had a wide reputation in his day, but it came more from a smooth finish and pretty accessories than from creative power.
18900Cima da Conegliano( 1460?-1517?)
18900Contemporary with René was Jean Fouquet( 1415?-1480?)
18900Even Duccio( 1260?----?
18900FLORENTINE SCHOOL: Cimabue( 1240?-1302?)
18900Flemish art for us begins with Hubert van Eyck(?-1426) and his younger brother Jan van Eyck(?-1440).
18900Flemish art for us begins with Hubert van Eyck(?-1426) and his younger brother Jan van Eyck(?-1440).
18900Florence, frescos Upper Church of Assisi(?
18900Gaudenzio Ferrara( 1481?-1547?
18900Gentile da Fabriano, Niccolo da Foligno, Bonfiglio( 1425?-1496?
18900Giottino( 1324?-1357?)
18900His best followers were Van der Meire( 1427?-1474?)
18900His son, Pomponio Allegri( 1521- 1593?
18900How could the new Christian ideas be expressed without form?
18900In painting Schäufelin( 1490?-1540?)
18900Jacopo Bellini( 1400?-1464?)
18900Jan van Heem( 1600?1684?)
18900Jean Péreal(?-1528?)
18900Jean Péreal(?-1528?)
18900Later on came a comparatively new man, Louis Gallait( 1810-?
18900Liberale da Verona( 1451- 1536?)
18900Lippo Memmi(?-1356), Bartolo di Fredi( 1330- 1410), and Taddeo di Bartolo( 1362- 1422), were other painters of the school.
18900Lon., Infanta Marguerita Louvre, Borro portrait(?)
18900Marcello Venusti( 1515- 1585?)
18900Masaccio( 1401?-1428?)
18900Mazzolino( 1478?-1528?)
18900Memling( 1425?-1495?
18900Michelangelo Anselmi( 1491- 1554?
18900Neuchatel( 1527?-1590?
18900Of these latter Carlo Crivelli( 1430?1493?)
18900Orcagna( 1329?-1376?)
18900Pacchiarotta( 1474- 1540?
18900Palma''s friend and fellow- worker, Lorenzo Lotto( 1480?-1556?)
18900Paolo Uccello( 1397?-1475), Andrea Castagno( 1390- 1457), Benozzo Gozzoli( 1420?-1497?
18900Perugino''s best pupil, after Raphael, was Lo Spagna(?-1530?
18900Perugino''s best pupil, after Raphael, was Lo Spagna(?-1530?
18900Quentin Massys( 1460?-1530) and Mostert( 1474- 1556?
18900S. GENEROSA, SEVENTH CENTURY(?).]
18900Simone di Martino( 1283?-1344?)
18900Solario( 1458?-1515?)
18900Spinello Aretino( 1332?-1410?)
18900TRANSITION PAINTERS: Several painters, Starnina( 1354- 1413), Gentile da Fabriano( 1360?-1440?
18900Taddeo Gaddi( 1300?-1366?)
18900That was largely the make- up of the other men of the school, Basaiti( 1490- 1521?
18900The first painter of importance in the school seems to have been Antonio Rincon( 1446?-1500?).
18900There were four of them, of whom Jean( 1485?-1541?)
18900There were two of the Vivarinis in the early times, so far as can be made out, Antonio Vivarini(?-1470) and Bartolommeo Vivarini( fl.
18900This is true in measure of Hans Baldung( 1476?-1552?).
18900Torbido( 1486?-1546?)
18900Van Goyen, Simon de Vlieger( 1601?-1660?
18900Wynants( 1615?-1679?)
18900and François( 1500?-1572?)
18900and Jean Bourdichon( 1457?-1521?)
29904And do not the muscles which cause the legs to move perform their duty without man being conscious of it?
29904And how does a weight find the centre of the earth with such directness?
29904And if it has no fixed position like the earth in the centre of its elements, why does it not fall to the centre of our elements?
29904And if it is true, why has it not remained among men who so greatly desired it, and led them to disregard any deity?
29904And if the moon is lighter than the other elements, why is it opaque and not transparent?
29904And if thou art not content with vegetables, canst thou not by a mixture of them make infinite compounds as Platina wrote, and other writers on food?
29904And if you say that it is mechanical because it is done for money, who is more guilty of this error-- if error it can be called-- than you?
29904And seest thou not that if the painter wishes to depict animals and devils in Hell with what richness of invention he proceeds?
29904And whither will it tend?
29904And why not along other lines?
29904Are there not pictures to be seen so like reality that they deceive men and animals?
29904Are these things to be done by men?
29904Art thou so wise as thou believest to be?
29904But if such pilgrimages continually exist, what is then their unnecessary cause?
29904But the hand?
29904But thou, writer of science, dost thou not copy with thy hand, and write what is in thy mind, as the painter does?
29904But what need is there for me to indulge in long and elevated discourse?
29904But why should I proceed further?
29904But why should I tire myself with vain words?
29904Do you perform any work without some pay?
29904Hast thou not seen women of the mountains dressed in rough and poor clothes richer in beauty than those who are adorned?
29904If it is driven, who is the driver?
29904If it is summoned,--and I mean sought after,--who is the seeker?
29904If you lecture in the schools, do you not go to whomsoever rewards you most?
29904Now consider which is nearer to man, the name of man or the image of man?
29904Now consider which is the greater loss, to be blind or dumb?
29904Now could he not have closed his eyes when this frenzy came upon him, and have kept them closed until the frenzy consumed itself?
29904Now does not nature produce enough vegetables for thee to satisfy thyself?
29904Now seest thou not how many and diverse acts are performed by men?
29904Now seest thou not that if thou wishest to go to nature, thou reachest her by the means of science, deduced by others from the effects of nature?
29904Now seest thou not that the eye comprehends the beauty of the whole world?
29904Now you can say, Does not one who talks loudly move his lips like one who talks softly?
29904O sleeper, what is sleep?
29904Seest thou not among human beauties that it is the beautiful faces which stop the passers- by, and not the richness of their ornaments?
29904The moon having density and gravity, how does it stand?
29904Therefore we ask, Is the virtue of herbs, stones and plants non- existent because men have been ignorant of it?
29904What can I say?
29904What is an element?
29904What is force?
29904What is force?
29904What is that thing which is not defined and would{ 16} not exist if it were defined?
29904What is thy opinion, O man, of thy own species?
29904What peoples, what tongues, are they who can perfectly describe thy true working?
29904What poet will place before thee in words, O{ 69} lover, the true semblance of thy idea with such truth as will the painter?
29904What praise is there which can express thy nobility?
29904What thing is there which acts not by reason of the eye?
29904What thing is there which could not be effected by such an art?
29904Who in naval warfare can be compared with him who commands the winds and generates storms which ruin and sink any fleet whatsoever?
29904Who is he who remakes it if the producer is continually dying?
29904Who is he who would not lose hearing, smell and touch rather than sight?
29904Why did nature not ordain that one animal should not live by the death of the other?
29904Why does not the weight remain in its place?
29904Why does the eye perceive things more clearly in dreams than with the imagination when one is awake?
29904[ Sidenote: Can Man imitate a Bird''s Flight?]
29904[ Sidenote: Can the Spirit speak?]
29904[ Sidenote: Has the Spirit a Body?]
29904and do we not see that the pictures which represent the divine deity are kept covered up with inestimable veils?
29904what would they do were they constrained to abide in this darkness during the whole of their life?
29904would not this have been more profitable and less fatiguing to thee, since this can be done in the cool without motion and danger of illness?
29904{ 43} Can not beauty and utility be combined-- as appears in citadels and men?
9837Is it not written in your law, I said,''Ye are gods?''
9837When?
9837Where?
9837Who could have believed a single line could have expressed so much?
9837121)( 15?
98372), the Man''s_ Bath_( 14-?
983768;[82] who shall prefer among these things?
9837Alt Pinakothek, Munich][ Illustration: HANS IMHOF(?)
9837And how often is this joy received through the eye entrusted back to it for expression?
9837Are we to be cattle or gods?
9837Besides, who ever heard of making such a work for an altar- piece?
9837But are we less convinced that only tasks done joyfully, as labours of love, deserve the reward of fuller and finer powers, and obtain it?
9837But how is it that reason can accept an imagination that makes what in a cold light she considers her enemy, appear her friend?
9837Did he feel like his friend Pirkheimer in the end, that"the new evangelical knaves made the old popish knaves seem pious by contrast?"
9837Doubtless; but does the desire to win the co- operation and approval of other men consist with the higher developments of human faculties?
9837DÜRER''S WIFE(?)
9837God help us that we should not so dishonour His precious mother but( honour her?)
9837Has he been enabled to travel in his suite as far as Venice?
9837Has he won the friendship of some rich burgher prince at Augsburg, or Strasburg, or Basle?
9837He quoted Goethe''s test for every idea about life,"But is it true, is it true for me, now?"
9837How comes he so finely dressed, the son of the modest Nuremberg goldsmith?
9837How could the study of anatomy ever do for an artist what Dürer was trying to do?
9837IV As we are placed, what hope can we have but to learn?
9837Is it not more worthy of admiration to achieve without the winning charm of colour what Apelles only realised with its assistance?
9837Is it not true that the superiority of another man humiliates, crushes and degrades us in our own eyes, if we envy it or hate it instead of loving it?
9837Is it, perhaps, essential to them?
9837Is the artistic man pious and by nature good?
9837Mr. Campbell Dodgson describes the drawing as in a measure spoilt by retouching, but what convinces him that these retouches are not by Dürer?
9837Oh Erasmus of Rotterdam, where wilt thou stop?
9837Oh Erasmus of Rotterdam, where wilt thou stop?
9837Oh God, if Luther be dead, who will henceforth expound to us the holy Gospel with such clearness?
9837On what agonies of creative and original minds is the safety of their homes based?
9837Or perhaps he has joined Willibald Pirkheimer at Basle or elsewhere, and they two, crossing the Alps together, have become friends for life?
9837PART II DÜRER''S LIFE IN RELATION TO THE TIMES IN WHICH HE LIVED[ Illustration] CHAPTER I DÜRER''S ORIGIN, YOUTH AND EDUCATION I Who was Dürer?
9837Perchance it was these that he saw in his dreams?
9837Portraits: Of himself, Leipzig, Madrid, Munich, Holzschuher( Hieronymus), Imhof, Hans(?
9837Shall we not have a sorry disappointment if its conclusion is merely novel, and not the fulfilment and vindication of those great things gone before?
9837Surely what they prized so highly must have had real and lasting worth?
9837The easily scandalous inquiries,"Who?"
9837The two earliest portraits of himself are the drawings which show him at the ages of thirteen and nineteen(?)
9837Then:"May we not consider it a sign of sanity when we regard the human spirit as... a poet, and art as a half written poem?
9837This demand of reason is perfectly arbitrary?
9837To say that light is a mode of motion does not define it; we ask at once, What mode?
9837We talk about Christ''s humility, but whose self- assertion has ever been more unmitigated?
9837What can a man explain?
9837What do you mean by setting me to such dirty work?
9837What kind of character do we mean to praise when we say a man is an evangelist?
9837What may not have happened to a picture after or before it left the artist''s studio?
9837What shall I say of the steadiness and exactitude of his hand?
9837Who will give us certainty in this matter?
9837Who will presume to point out the necessity by which these things were thus and not otherwise?
9837Why could he not bring himself to accept the overtures made to him, and become a citizen of Venice?
9837Why should we expect him to have been less successful than his parents in these respects?
9837Why was he not sent to Rome to see the ceiling of the Sistina and Raphael''s Stanze?
9837Would you write and tell me what instruments and the like he has left, and also where our Stabius''prints and wood- blocks are to be found?
9837and what is there from which we might not learn?
35466''Listen, Doctor,''he said,''do n''t you hear a ticking?'' 35466 ''What is that?''
35466And you-- still in the Commons?
35466Are you hurt?
35466But why?
35466But will you have the next with me?
35466Can you describe him further?
35466Do any of you belong to the Orleans Club?
35466Do you hear?
35466Give me an opportunity of meeting him-- what''s he like?
35466Have you a cell vacant at the station? 35466 How could my meeting you and your wife start you on a confession of that nature?"
35466How is it, Lord Torrington,she asked after the usual polite formalities,"that you have not been to see me?"
35466How would you describe this gentleman-- was he carrying anything, for instance?
35466How''s that?
35466I go up to''i m and I say,''You thirsty?'' 35466 Oh, well,"I said,"sometimes you sit down, do n''t you?
35466Really,I began,"why all this excitement?
35466Still-- er-- on the stage?
35466This is Mr. Leslie Ward; do n''t you remember the letter I wrote at your request asking him to lunch to- day?
35466What are you?
35466What do yer want?
35466What do you mean?
35466What do you think they gave me to- day?
35466What else did you see?
35466What happened there?
35466What is all this?
35466What is the secret of your longevity?
35466What name?
35466What shall I do then?
35466What''s the matter, I wonder?
35466What''s the matter?
35466Where had we better dine?
35466Where the devil is the dummy?
35466Where, sir?
35466Who are you?... 35466 Who is your sitter?"
35466Who was it,he writes,"that took the children to Astley''s but Uncle Newcome?"
35466Why doant ye go''ome with yer wife?
35466''Where?''
35466A friend of mine came to me once and said,"You simply must make a drawing of''Piggy''Palk, he''s such a splendid subject-- have you ever seen him?
35466After some preliminary conversation she began:"Oh, Lord Haldon, I see you have an eyeglass, do you ever wear it?
35466Also may I enquire where a_ good_ portrait of yourself may be procured?
35466Are you coming to my afternoon on Saturday?''
35466But if simultaneously another member burst in with hilarious mood and cried,"Now then, Shave, what have you for dinner?"
35466D''you know old Tommy What''s- his- name?
35466Do n''t you know me?
35466Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?...
35466Fearing I was dead, he exclaimed,"Good God, how shall I break the news?"
35466Getting in, my father said"Home"to the cabby, whereupon the man replied,"Where, sir?"
35466Had I any to spare?
35466How should I do for a change?"
35466I was asked the old formula: or something to this effect--"Who''s your tutor, who''s your dame?
35466Jones:_''Are you coming to my party next Wednesday, Mrs. Smith, to hear Corney Grain?''
35466My host, who was then in smooth water on the other side of the river exclaimed, to the rest of the party,"Where''s Ward?"
35466Not seeing him, I said to the hall porter,"Where''s Shave?"
35466Presently the wife appeared at the window and called out,"What on earth do you want waking me up this time of the night?"
35466She loses her case and is imprisoned?_) 1865.]
35466Smith and Mrs. Jones, together:_''Indeed we are, who have you got?''
35466Spy,''that it''s very bad manners to whisper?"
35466Suddenly turning round in the middle of the lecture, he inquired in a loud stage whisper,"How are you getting on?"
35466Suppose I draw you that way?"
35466What about billiard chalk?
35466What do I remind you of?"
35466What is the matter?"
35466What was to be done?
35466What you recommend to make the''''air grow?''"]
35466Where do you board, and what''s your name?"
35466Where may a brief and authentic sketch of your life and career be found?
35466[ 8] What''s up?"
35466do you really think so?
35466do you think,"he said,"that the man who built that coat could have lived to build the trousers too?"
35466he''s capital now, ai n''t he?"
35466or"Who do you consider paints women best?"
17408Why grope about for the significant, when the obvious is at hand? 17408 _ Volto Santo di Luca_"(?).
17408(?)
17408(?).
17408(?).
17408(?).
17408(?).
174081466- 1524(?).
17408Andrew and Catherine(?).
17408Baroncelli Polyptych: Coronation of Virgin, Saints and Angels(?).
17408Bust of Christ Blessing(?).
17408Bust of Man(?).
17408Bust of Young Woman(?).
17408But how does Giotto accomplish this miracle?
17408But where else in the whole world of art shall we receive such blasts of energy as from this giant''s dream, or, if you will, nightmare?
17408Could a mere painter, or even a mere artist, have seen and felt as Leonardo?
17408Crucifixion( in part?).
17408Crucifixion(?).
17408E. Portrait of Clarissa Orsini(?).
17408Francis and Nicholas(?).
17408Fresco: Paradise(?).
17408Giotto we know already, but what were the new conditions, the new demands?
17408Have London or New York or Berlin worse to show us than the jumble of buildings in his ideal of a great city, his picture of Babylon?
17408L. Christ saving Man from drowning(?).
17408Large Nativity with three Saints and three Donors(?).
17408Lucretia(?).
17408Lunette: God and Cherubim(?)
17408Madonna adoring Child(?).
17408Madonna adoring Child(?).
17408Madonna and Saints(?).
17408Madonna and infant John(?)
17408Madonna and infant John(?).
17408Madonna and infant John(?).
17408Madonna and infant John(?).
17408Madonna in Niche(?).
17408Madonna seated in a Loggia looking down towards infant John(?).
17408Madonna with St. Andrew and Baptist(?).
17408Madonna with infant John and three Angels(?).
17408Madonna with infant John(?).
17408Madonna( Piero)(?).
17408Madonna( from Ghirlandajo''s studio)(?).
17408Madonna(?)
17408Madonna(?)
17408Madonna(?).
17408Madonna(?).
17408Madonna(?).
17408Now in what way, we ask, can form in painting give me a sensation of pleasure which differs from the ordinary sensations I receive from form?
17408Now what is back of this power of raising us to a higher plane of reality but a genius for grasping and communicating real significance?
17408Portrait of Man in Armour with Dog(?).
17408Portrait of Man(?).
17408Portrait of"Caterina Sforza"(?).
17408Procris and Cephalus(?).
17408Profile of Lady(?).
17408Profile of Lady(?).
17408Profile of Young Woman(?).
17408Resurrected Christ(?).
17408Scene in Temple(?).
17408Sebastian and Julian(?).
17408St. Bartholomew and Angel(?).
17408The four Evangelists( framed above Triptych ascribed to Spinello Aretino)(?).
17408Triumph of Venus(?).
17408VATICAN, MUSEO CRISTIANO, CASE P, V._ Predella_: Dormition(?).
17408We thus have lost in quantity, but have we lost in quality?
17408What chance is there, I ask, for this, artistically the only possible treatment, in the representation of a man crucified with his head downwards?
17408What is it that makes us return to this sheet with ever renewed, ever increased pleasure?
17408What is it to render the tactile values of an object but to communicate its material significance?
17408What is the point at which ordinary pleasures pass over into the specific pleasures derived from each one of the arts?
17408What more obvious symbol for_ the_ Church than_ a_ church?
17408Wherein does his achievement differ in quality from a coloured map of a country?
17408Who knows?
17408Young Man with Letter(?).
17408[ Page heading: NATURALISM IN ART] What is a Naturalist?
17408_ Pietà_ in Landscape(?).
17408_ Tondo_: Madonna and infant John(?).
17408_ Tondo_: Madonna and infant John(?).
529''Am I to be the pupil of the great Perugino?''
529''Am I to have nothing more than this?''
529''And it is thy desire to leave the world, and enter our convent?''
529''And so, Filippo, thou wouldst become a monk?''
529''And when art thou anything else?
529''And where is it that the greatest painters dwell?''
529''Are these the pictures I ordered thee to paint?''
529''Art thou willing to give up all, that thou mayest become a servant of God?''
529''Art tired already, Pietro?''
529''But when wilt thou make an end?''
529''But, and if I tell them this story, how will they believe that I speak the truth?''
529''Didst thou not learn to mix colours in the studio of Master Ghirlandaio?''
529''Do you not see that it would crush me and my workshop if it fell?''
529''Does he think he can catch a lark and train it to sing in a cage at his bidding?
529''Dost think if any one met thee now, they would believe that thou art the best painter in the world?''
529''Dost thou not know me?
529''Dost thou think thou canst make aught of the boy?''
529''Dost thou want to be thrown head first from the scaffold?''
529''Good fisherman,''it said,''wilt thou row me over to San Giorgio Maggiore?
529''Hast thou brought the child to be a model?''
529''Hast thou heard the news of young Andrea del Sarto?''
529''How can I do that?''
529''How is it possible to row across to San Giorgio?''
529''How much wilt thou take for thy birds?''
529''How wilt thou know us apart if thou callest him Filippo?''
529''How would you like to come with me to Florence and learn to be a painter?''
529''If the angels had looked as thou sayest, dost thou think the citizen would have bought the picture?''
529''Is aught amiss?''
529''Is it indeed finished so soon?''
529''Is she not as fair as the roses which thou dost so love to paint?''
529''Is that better?''
529''Is this the kind of painting to do honour to God and to our Church?
529''Let me see-- how old art thou?''
529''Look at the maid who kneels in front,''said Fra Diamante in a hushed voice,''is she not as fair as any saint?''
529''Master, master,''cried the astonished pupil,''tell me if I am dreaming, or if I have lost my wits?
529''What canst thou do?''
529''What dost thou mean by coming back so soon?
529''What dost thou think of this new style of painting?''
529''What has the child done now?''
529''What hath bewitched thee?''
529''What is all this?''
529''What makes thee do these things?''
529''What name shall we give the little maid?''
529''What, in disgrace again?''
529''When wilt thou have finished?''
529''Where are the most beautiful pictures to be found?''
529''Where art thou going?''
529''Who did that?''
529''Who taught you to do this?''
529''Whoever saw a grander rope?''
529''Why canst thou not paint quicker and sell at higher prices?
529''Why should I take it down?
529''Will you ever teach me the secret of your wings, I wonder?''
5291470?"
5291477?"
529But had he, indeed, the artist soul?
529But what cares he so long as he has his paints and brushes?
529But what work?
529But what would the good nuns think of it?
529But where was Filippo, and why did his friend ride so slowly?
529But who can say if that freedom was indeed a gain?
529But who could tell?
529Can I not do as I like with my own house?''
529Could they be going there now?
529Could you not alter that?''
529Did the kind man mean that he was to give up his bread when he had scarcely eaten half of it?
529Do you ever wonder how all these pictures came to be made?
529Dost thou indeed wish to cast in thy lot with mine?''
529If the spirits of the old masters could have returned to gaze upon this new work, what would their feelings have been?
529Is there aught that thou canst not do if thou hast but the will?''
529Must he return to idleness and the place which was no longer home?
529Surely that figure riding so slowly along was Fra Diamante?
529The woman was a dealer in black magic, and who knew but that the child might be a changeling?
529What am I to do with such a boy, I wonder?''
529What had happened?
529What had he done?
529What if the master refused to take him as a pupil?
529What mattered to him what his subject was?
529What may this mean?''
529What was the secret power in their wings?
529Where could he hide his prize?
529Where were his angels?
529Who could tell how bright it would shine ere long?
529Who was to have the money, and how were the Santi estates to be divided?
529Will these mere human figures help men to remember the saints, teach them to look up to heaven, or help them with their prayers?
529Will you, then, do other work for me, and become my Archbishop at Florence?''
529Work was left behind, for who could work indoors on days like these?
529Would they ever let her go?
29907Can not we,say the public,"see what nature is with our own eyes, and find out for ourselves what is like her?"
29907De plus_ beau_?
29907Do n''t it hurt your eyes?
29907Am not I, at this moment, describing a piece of Turner''s drawing, with the same words by which I describe nature?
29907And now, how are the sunbeams drawn?
29907And this, accordingly was the means by which the old masters obtained their( truth?)
29907And what would one of the old masters have done with such a building as this in his distance?
29907And why then do you blame Turner because he dazzles you?
29907And with whom will you do this, except with Turner?
29907But how is this made into rock?
29907But which would be the most truthful portrait of the_ man_?
29907Could any words that he could use make us feel the hairbreadth of depth and distance on which all depends?
29907Do my opponents mean to assert that nothing good can ever be bettered, and that what is best of past time is necessarily best of all time?
29907Do we think of à � schylus while we wait on the silence of Cassandra,[G] or of Shakspeare, while we listen to the wailing of Lear?
29907Does he receive his critiques from Eaton or Harrow-- based on the experience of a week''s birds''-nesting and its consequences?
29907Does it look high?
29907Does it thence follow that it possesses in the_ highest_ degree_ every_ species of sterling excellence?
29907Does not the falsehood rest with those who do_ not_?
29907Does that white thing on the horizon look seventy miles off?
29907Has Claude given this?
29907How is it then that anything so plain as this should be contradicted by one of the most universally received aphorisms respecting art?
29907How much has he represented of all this?
29907How much less of the complicated forms of boughs, leaves, or limbs?
29907If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of?
29907Is it faint, or fading, or to be looked for by the eye before it can be found out?
29907Is it less tautology to describe a thing over and over again with lines, than it is with words?
29907Is it pale and gray with heat, full of sunshine, and unfathomable in depth?
29907Is there a curve in it which I can modulate-- a line which I can graduate-- a vacancy I can fill?
29907Is there a single space in the picture where I can crowd in another thought?
29907Is there a single spot which the eye, by any peering or prying, can fathom or exhaust?
29907Is there then no such thing as elevated ideal character of landscape?
29907It is here high noon, as is shown by the shadow of the figures; and what sort of color is the sky at the top of the picture?
29907It is the exhaustless living energy with which the universe is filled; and what will you set beside it of the works of other men?
29907It is the very subject to unite all these effects,--a sloping bank shaded with intertwined forest;--and what has Gaspar given us?
29907It_ does_ sound like wild, like absurd enthusiasm, to expect any definite moral agency in the painters of landscape; but ought it so to sound?
29907Look, for instance, at the wreaths of_ cloud_?
29907Now, let me once more ask, though I am sufficiently tired of asking, what record have we of anything like this in the works of the old masters?
29907Secondly,"Can my details be added to?
29907Tell me who is likest this, Poussin or Turner?
29907Two questions the artist has, therefore, always to ask himself,--first,"Is my whole right?"
29907What does Canaletto do?
29907What excuse is there to be offered for his omitting, on that scale, as I shall hereafter show, all statement of such ornament whatever?
29907What is Christopher North about?
29907What is there in this, which the most determined prejudice in favor of the old masters can for a moment suppose to resemble trees?
29907What picture in the room would not have been blackness after it?
29907What recollection have we of the sunsets which delighted us last year?
29907What should we think of a poet who should keep all his life repeating the same thought in different words?
29907What sort of leaf texture is supposed to be represented by these?
29907Who is there who can do this as Turner will?
29907Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves?
29907Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south, and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain?
29907Whose work will you compare with this?
29907Why should they see her at second- hand on a piece of canvas?"
29907[ 43] Has Claude given this?
29907[ 46] Has Claude given this?
29907[ 49] Has Claude given this?
29907[ K] Is not this-- it may be asked-- demanding more from him than life can accomplish?
29907does it look impressive?
29907does it look large?
29907or how shall we follow its eternal changefulness of feeling?
18118And is it a stone- mason you want to make of my heir and firstborn?
18118And what are you working at?
18118And who painted that?
18118Are they fierce?
18118Did you ever see a live horse?
18118Did you walk?
18118Have you seen Keppel''s portrait?
18118He will do nothing but draw pictures? 18118 Is it true-- is it true that there are pictures by Rubens in the Louvre?"
18118Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?
18118Me? 18118 Me?
18118Me? 18118 Me?
18118Pray you,said Rubens,"to which Van Dyck do you refer?
18118Should we two old men, about ready to die, stand in the way of the success of that boy?
18118So you do not care for the picture?
18118Then you painted the picture alone?
18118To Barcelona-- ten miles, and back?
18118Well, boys, what shall we draw today?
18118Well, why can not all your scholars draw like that, then?
18118What can you do?
18118What did I tell you?
18118What did I tell you?
18118What is the painter''s name?
18118What is this book you are working on?
18118What shall it be?
18118Where am I?
18118Where do you wish to go?
18118Where have you been?
18118Where have you been?
18118Who did this?
18118Who is with you?
18118Who wants me?
18118Why are you always late?
18118Why do you no longer come to my atelier?
18118You are quite sure my presence will not make you nervous, then?
18118You do not mind my watching you work?
18118You see the palace there in the picture, do you not?
18118And did she guess that this child would be the sustaining prop for her son when she, herself, was gone?
18118And this is well-- God made it all, and did He not look upon His work and pronounce it good?
18118And why should they not be?
18118But he contributed to the quiet joy of a million homes; and it is not for us to say,"It is beautiful; but is it art?"
18118But love is greater than man- made titles, and when was there ever a difference in station able to separate hearts that throbbed only for each other?
18118Can you mistake Kemble''s"coons,"Denslow''s dandies, Remington''s horses, Giannini''s Indians, or Gibson''s"Summer Girl"?
18118Can you read"Captain, My Captain,"or listen to the"Pilgrims''Chorus,"or look upon"The Man With the Hoe"without tears?
18118Could not the distinguished painter remain over one day and give his hosts a taste of his quality?
18118Delaroche and others declared his work was great, but how could they make people buy it?
18118Did Aubrey Beardsley infuse his own spirit into his work?
18118Did not the artist Salvio commit suicide?
18118Did the chief citizens of Leyden in the year Sixteen Hundred Thirty regard Rembrandt''s beggars as immortal?
18118Do you hear me, Mother, calling and crying for you?
18118Do you hear, Mynheer Van Swanenburch?
18118Do you understand me?
18118H.?"
18118He could hire men to paint, but where could one be found who could govern?
18118He could paint houses or wagons, and, then, did n''t the shipyard folks employ painters?
18118He had no quarrel with his environment, for did he not stay here a hundred years( lacking half a year), and then die through accident?
18118He roused enough to answer the question:"Dore-- Gustave Dore-- an artist?
18118If Elizabeth never discovered Shakespeare, how could she be expected to know Raphael?
18118If Rubens could not paint the picture of a lady without falling in love with her, what should be expected of his best pupil, Van Dyck?
18118In a week Lacroix said to Dore, who had called,"Well, have you begun to read my story?"
18118Into all his work Giorgione infused his own soul-- and do you know what the power to do that is?
18118It occurred to certain capitalists that if people would go to see one Dore, why would not a Dore gallery pay?
18118Jean Francois did not belong in Paris: how can robins build nests in omnibuses?
18118Let''s see-- what was it, then, that we were talking about?
18118No one there remembered seeing the boy-- how can busy officials be expected to remember everything?
18118Now, who shall say that Louis the Fourteenth has not enriched the world?
18118The diplomat well masked his true errand with the artist''s garb: and who of all men was ever so well fitted by Nature to play the part as Rubens?
18118The mother simply waived the taunt and asked,"Do you tell me the schoolmaster says he will not do anything but draw pictures?"
18118The question is, What will you collect?
18118The question was, for what profession should he be educated?
18118We will not think less of you, for see, do we not invite you to our board?"
18118What more can be done for you?
18118Who will be presumptuous enough to say what would have occurred had not this happened and that first taken place?
18118Why?
18118With such an entree into life, how was it possible that he should ever become a master?
18118and was n''t your husband really guilty, and did n''t you know it all the time?"
18118how should I know?
18118or does your avatar live somewhere here in this world?
18118turned to dust these three hundred years, what star do you now inhabit?
18118who can make a statue such as Michelangelo made?
4999When does it happen?
4999)],''Lapidary'',''On warfare''[ Footnote 4:_ Il Vegezio?
4999--"You know I have", answered the other,"How do you suppose that a Merchant like me should go about otherwise?"
4999--Lapidario Teofrasto?
4999... Il Cornazzano?...
4999... Il Frontino?
49991 and 2 and the ground flour("flour"sic but should be"floor"?)
499923:_ Leonard de Vinci a- t- il ete au Righi le 5 aout 1473_?
499930(?).
49998 locum et tempus success(ores) cujus similiter officium ministratus qui praedecessoris sui donum(?)
49998 were divisa dal lago( Lake Van?
49999confirmavit et de novo dedit aliorumque plurima[ laudatis] qui opera tua laudant 10nos inducunt ut tibi(?)
4999Among those which grow lean which is that which grows leanest?
4999And among the parts which grow fat which is that which grows fattest?
4999And do you not believe that the Nile must have sent more water into the sea than at present exists of all the element of water?
4999And the rocks with their various strata?
4999And turning it over in his thoughts he began to say to himself:"And shall I return again to that shop from which I have just come?
4999And why by no other line?
4999And why does the weight know how to find it by so short a line?
4999And, if it has no proper place of its own, like the earth, in the midst of its elements, why does it not fall to the centre of our elements?
4999And, if the moon is lighter than the other elements why is it opaque and not transparent?
4999Are these things to be done by men?
4999Are we to doubt this statement too, merely because no biographer has hitherto given us any information on the matter?
4999Are you so wise as you believe yourselves to be?
4999As to whether it is better that the water should all be raised in a single turn or in two?
4999Below:_ 176000 x 8= 1408000;_ and below:_ Semjlio e se ce 80(?)
4999Bridge of Goertz- Wilbach(?).
4999But of what use is it to fatigue myself with vain words?
4999But why should I enlarge further upon this?
4999But why should these rough drafts of letters be regarded as anything else than what they actually and obviously are?
4999Francesco Vinci, Leonardo''s uncle, died-- as Amoretti tells us-- in the winter of l5l0- 11( or according to Uzielli in 1506?
4999Giodatti(?)
4999Granting that the earth might be removed from the centre of the globe, what would happen to the water?
4999He renders this_"Le Tigre et l''Euphrate se sont deverses par les sommets des montagnes[ avec leurs eaux destructives?]
4999How large is the garland?
4999How many braccia high is the level of the walls?-- 123 braccia How large is the hall?
4999I here ask what weight will be needed to counterpoise and resist the tendency of each of these arches to give way?
4999I, has in the original two lines of writing underneath; one in red chalk of two or three words is partly effaced:_ lionardo it... lm_( or_ lai_?
4999If it has, why does it not shine without the aid of the sun?
4999If the beams and the weight_ o_ are 100 pounds, how much weight will be wanted at_ ae_ to resist such a weight, that it may not fall down?
4999In very strong men which are the muscles which are thickest and most prominent?
4999Is this body destined for such work?
4999Jovius had probably seen the model exhibited at Milan; but, need we, in fact, infer from this description that the horse was galloping?
4999Mandebille:"Le grand lapidaire,"versione italiana ms.?...
4999Must we, in fact, suppose that"_ il duca di Milano_"here mentioned was, as has been generally assumed, Ludovico il Moro?
4999O blessed and happy spirit whence comest thou?
4999Or what part which as a man grows lean never falls away with a too perceptible diminution?
4999Perhaps it refers to some author on architecture or an architect( Bramante?)
4999Sappiamo essere stato questo valente dipintore uno de''bravi scolari del Vinci_(?).
4999THE BOA(?)
4999The ancient architects...... beginning with the Egyptians(?)
4999The miserable painstakers... with what hope may they expect a reward of their merit?
4999The praise and confession of the faith[ Footnote 20:_ Persuasione di fede_, of the Christian or the Mohammedan faith?
4999WHAT IS AN ARCH?
4999What do you think here, Man, of your own species?
4999What is life?
4999What is there that could not be done by such a craftsman?
4999What naval warfare could be compared with this?
4999Where is that lustrous surface?
4999Where is the pride you had when you were covered with ripe fruits?
4999Where will it move to?
4999Wherefore art thou so partial; being to some of thy children a tender and benign mother, and to others a most cruel and pitiless stepmother?
4999Which is the part in man, which, as he grows fatter, never gains flesh?
4999Which nerve causes the motion of the eye so that the motion of one eye moves the other?
4999Which nerves or sinews of the hand are those which close and part the fingers and toes latteraly?
4999Which weighs most, water when frozen or when not frozen?
4999Why did nature not ordain that one animal should not live by the death of another?
4999Why does not the weight_ o_ remain in its place?
4999Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
4999Why does the inundation of the Nile occur in the summer, coming from torrid countries?
4999Why dost thou not wake and behold thy creatures thus ill used?
4999Wildcats(?)
4999[ Defter written in arab?]
4999[ Footnote 1334: G. Govi_ says in the_''Saggio''p. 22:_ Si dilett Leonarda, di giuochi di prestigi e molti(?)
4999[ Footnote 3:_ Leonza_--wild cat?
4999], and other authors on feeding?
4999],-- Pandolfino''s book, mortar[?
4999and if it departed how could it move unless it went upwards?
4999at Aintas?).
4999conventus Wiennensis capellano 4 nostro commensali salutem in dno sempiternam Religione zelus rite ac in[ ferite?]
4999il peso del tiburio_( six millions six hundred(?)
4999what do I see?
4999whither are you going?
13973''A little late for that, is it not?'' 13973 ''When?''
13973A picture like this?
13973Accounts for what?
13973And did he talk to you?
13973And what did you put on the opposite wall?
13973And what next?
13973Are the figures on the top intended for people?
13973But Ruskin lives in the North, you know, and a southern exposure troubled him, rather, eh?
13973Can you indeed?
13973Do n''t you think you had better stop?
13973Do you say this is a correct representation?
13973Do you think now,said the Attorney- General, insinuatingly,"you could make me see the beauty of that picture?"
13973Do?
13973Ever read his essays?
13973For two days''labor you ask two hundred guineas?
13973Have you been there all night?
13973How dare you sketch in my Chelsea?
13973How do I know? 13973 How do you know?
13973How old are you?
13973I beg your pardon,said the latter,"but do you represent a religious journal?"
13973I beg your pardon?
13973I beg your pardon?
13973Is it a telescope or a fire- escape? 13973 Is n''t it BEAUTIFUL?"
13973Is n''t it appalling?
13973Is n''t it, though?
13973Is that a barge beneath?
13973Is that the best you have of me?
13973Madam,said the vexed artist,"will you have the cat in the foreground or in the back yard?"
13973Me?
13973My dear cousin Kate,he said to Mrs. Livermore,"if any one likes to think I was born in Baltimore, why should I deny it?
13973No,said he;"but is n''t it_ beautiful_?"
13973Not that it is not very beautiful and artistic and so on-- but I say, come now, you do n''t think it quite does me justice, do you?
13973Painted, too, did n''t he?
13973See anything worth while?
13973Stop when everything is going so beautifully? 13973 Stop?"
13973That''s a verdict for me, is it not?
13973Think of it?
13973Well, Horne,he asked,"what do you think of it?"
13973Well, what else?
13973Well,queried Wilde,"do you perceive any worth?"
13973What did he say then?
13973What did he say?
13973What did he say?
13973What do you mean?
13973What do you think of her?
13973What is that gold- colored mark on the side, like a cascade?
13973What is that structure in the middle?
13973What is your opinion of a tolerable egg?
13973What on earth do you mean?
13973What? 13973 What?"
13973What?
13973When are you coming to America?
13973Where are my things? 13973 Where is she?"
13973Which part of the picture is the bridge?
13973Whistler, sir? 13973 Who else has such cause to mourn?
13973Who is your architect?
13973Why, what on earth are you doing there, Rossetti?
13973Why,answered Whistler, in dulcet tones,"why drag in Velasquez?"
13973Why?
13973You do n''t suppose I couple myself with Velasquez, do you? 13973 You''re not going to leave it that way?"
13973You''ve done nothing to it since I saw it, have you?
13973''And how many did you paint in four hours, Jimmy?''
13973***** A young woman student protested under criticism,"Mr. Whistler, is there any reason why I should n''t paint things as I see them?"
13973***** His model once asked him:"Where were you born?"
13973***** In the Fine Art Society''s gallery one day he spoke to a knighted R.A."Who was that?"
13973***** Mr. Chase came up for discussion once at a little party, and Whistler''s sister observed,"Mr. Chase amuses James, does n''t he, James?"
13973***** Sir John E. Millais said to Whistler one day:"Jimmy, why do n''t you paint more pictures?
13973***** Walking in the Champs- Elysà © es in Paris one morning, Whistler heard one Englishman say to another:"See that chap over there?"
13973*****"Chase,"said Whistler one day,"how- is it now in America?
13973*****"Do you think genius is hereditary?"
13973*****"Well, Mr. Whistler, how are you getting on?"
13973*****"Why have you withered people and stung them all your life?"
13973A consultation was held, and the artists shook their heads, inquiring of one another,"Who is he?"
13973And do you see the poison that comes out when he strikes?
13973Anything worth while?"
13973Are they valuable?"
13973Did you come all the way to London to consort with such-- well, what shall we call them?
13973Did you ever hear such dissonance?
13973Dinna ye hear the bagpipes?"
13973Do n''t you see the paint is not yet dry?"
13973Finally the junior asked, timidly:"Do n''t you think this painting of mine is a-- er-- a tolerable picture, sir?"
13973Go and stuff myself with food when I can paint like this?
13973Godwin,''I said,''will you marry Jimmy?''
13973Godwin?''
13973He approached a student slightly deaf, who stammered in reply,"I beg pardon?"
13973He glanced casually at the paintings on the walls, and then queried:"How much for the lot?"
13973He made such a fuss that the station- master asked Mr. Chase who was his companion:"Who is that quarrelsome little man?
13973Here is a characteristic one:_ Question:_"Do you know what I mean when I say tone, value, light, shade, quality, movement, construction, etc.?"
13973How beautiful it is?
13973How tenderly handled?
13973How well kept?
13973I surely may always hereafter rely on the_ Morning Post_ to see that no vulgar Woking joke reach me?
13973If they are horses and carts, how in the name of fortune are they to get off?"
13973In the evening he said to his servant,"Where''s the man?"
13973Is it like Battersea Bridge?
13973Is it not in black and white that the works of the great masters must not enter America, that they are not wanted?
13973Is n''t he fine?
13973Is n''t he superb?"
13973Laying his hand on Keppel''s shoulder, he said:"Now, is n''t it beautiful?"
13973Making the cabby maneuver the vehicle to various viewpoints, he finally observed:"Is n''t it beautiful?
13973Moore, in the inside, remarked in his sweetly modulated voice:"Why drag in Whistler?"
13973On his arrival Sir Morell said, gravely:"How do you do, Mr. Whistler?
13973One man annoyed the artist by saying at each dismissal:"How- about that ear, Mr. Whistler?
13973Rather flattered, he said,"So you recognized me from behind, did you, master?"
13973So what''s the use of it?"
13973That chap with the long hair and spindle legs?"
13973The next morning he blandly asked Mr. Chase:"What did Abbey have to say last night?
13973Then Whistler said to the host:"''My man, would you like to sell a great deal more beer than you do?''
13973Then, turning to his friend, who had overheard the conversation, Whistler said:"I do n''t think he could get that dirty in seven years; do you?"
13973This play on his best_ mot_,"Why drag in Velasquez?"
13973Waving his wand gently toward the famous gallery, Whistler queried:"Been in there?"
13973What are the figures at the top?
13973What is its history?"
13973When Mr. Graves produced the painting he observed, icily:"Well, and has painting come to this?"
13973Whistler?
13973Who is Bouguereau?"
13973Why should you hold an exhibition of pictures in America?
13973Why, have n''t you a law to keep out pictures and statues?
13973he cried,"what in the world are you splashing at?"
13973said the lady,"what is the matter, dear master?"
38923''Jeremiah, what seest thou?'' 38923 And if Constable and De Wint give me the impression of such a window, there must be something right in Constable and De Wint?"
38923And something more right than in Turner?
38923Below?
38923But is there, then, no good in any work which does not pretend to perfectness? 38923 But, how, if this were so, could his capacities be of the meanest order?"
38923How do you know that?
38923If this be so, it is not well to encourage the observance of landscape, any more than other ways of dreamily and ineffectually spending time?
38923Then if Turner does not give me the impression of such a window, that is of Nature, there must be something wrong in Turner?
38923Well, but do not the trunks of trees fork, and fork mostly into two arms at a time?
38923Well, but then, what becomes of all these long dogmatic chapters of yours about giving nothing but the truth, and as much truth as possible?
38923Well, but you said you would change your Turners for windows, why not, therefore, for Constables?
38923Well, but,the reader says,"what do you mean by calling_ either_ of them true?
38923Well, then,the reader goes on to question me,"the more closely the picture resembles such a window the better it must be?"
38923What am I?
38923What is the use, to me, of the painted effigy of hero or beauty? 38923 What is the use, to me, of the painted landscape?"
38923Will you explain yourself?
38923''But why is yours the best which is contrary to the rules?''
38923( Ah, fi, profane, est- ce là mon collier?
3892364''What master of the pencil, or the style, Had traced the shades and lines that might have made The subtlest workman wonder?
38923Above all, who shall gainsay them when they and Nature say precisely the same thing?
38923And how are they Glorified?
38923And making demivolte in air, Cried,''Where''s the coward would not dare To fight for such a laud?''"
38923And yet how is it that these conceits are so painful now, when they have been pleasant to us in the other instances?
38923Are things really so?
38923But if you want to sit in your room and look at a beautiful picture, why should you blame the artist for giving you one?
38923But let them, in the teeth of their pleasure or displeasure, simply put the calm question,--Is it so?
38923But what science-- of motion, meat, and medicine?
38923But what should Juno have done?
38923For me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask The classic poet''s well- conned task?
38923Frowned Diana into submission?
38923Has it been, or is it, a true highness, a true princeliness, or only a show of it, consisting in courtly manners and robes of state?
38923Has religious art never been of any service to mankind?
38923Has there, then( the reader asks emphatically), been_ no_ true religious ideal?
38923Hast thou come faster on foot than I in my black ship?"
38923How camest thou under the Shadowy darkness?
38923How can any one like both?
38923How could thy soul, by realms and seas disjoined, Outfly the nimble sail, and leave the lagging wind?"
38923How far is this true imagination to be truly represented?
38923How far should the perfect conception of Pallas be so given as to look like Pallas herself, rather than like the picture of Pallas?
38923How is it that we enjoy so much the having it put into our heads that it is anything else than a plain crocus?
38923How, then, is this noble power best to be employed in the art of painting?
38923I might answer to this; Well, what else_ should_ he do?
38923I thus: From Campaldino''s field what force or chance Drew thee, that ne''er thy sepulchre was known?''
38923If they ever hope to do better, why do they trouble us now?
38923If you know nothing_ but_ railroads, and can communicate nothing but aqueous vapor and gunpowder,--what then?
38923If you want to feel as if you were in a shower, can not you go and get wet without help from Constable?
38923If you want to feel as if you were walking in the fields, can not you go and walk in them without help from De Wint?
38923Is Scott, or are the persons of his story, gay at this moment?
38923Is it a safe or a seductive one?
38923Is it absolutely required of the painter, who has conceived perfection, that he should so paint it as to look only like a picture?
38923Is it religion?
38923Is it rocky height or cloudy height, adamant or vapor, on which the sun of praise so long has risen and set?
38923Is it science?
38923Is not this_ altering_?"
38923Is that the way a stone is shaped, the way a cloud is wreathed, the way a leaf is veined?
38923Is there no saving clause from this terrible requirement of completion?
38923Is, therefore, the pawnbroker''s imitation as good as the original?
38923It seems to me, and may seem to the reader, strange that we should need to ask the question,"What is poetry?"
38923Killed Diana with a look?
38923May we wisely boast of it, and unhesitatingly indulge it?
38923Must, therefore, this perfected nature be imperfectly represented?
38923Not beaten Diana?
38923Now in the bud, where all these proceedings on the leaf''s part are first imagined, the young leaf is generally( always?)
38923Of what then?
38923Shall I see glories beaming from his brow, Or trace his footsteps by the rising flowers?"
38923The dark raging of the sea-- what form has that?
38923The question is, then, what is the symbolic character of the Countess Matilda, as the guiding spirit of the terrestrial paradise?
38923There is still the question open, What are the principal directions in which this ideal faculty is to exercise itself most usefully for mankind?
38923There never were such beasts in the world as either of these?"
38923This is still the only question for the artist, or for us:--"Is it a fact?
38923Vulgar?
38923Was not the nourishment of herbs and flowers a kind of ministering to his wants?
38923Was not this, then, a healthy change?
38923Well, what more does he tell us?
38923Well, what more?
38923Well; when you have moved your savage, and dressed your savage, fed him with white bread, and shown him how to set a limb,--what next?
38923What is it which makes one truth greater than another, one thought greater than another?
38923What is this in the picture which is precious to us, and yet is not natural?
38923What more?
38923What pleasantness may be in_ wrong_ ideas we do not here inquire; the only question for us has always been, and must always be, What are the facts?
38923What single example does the reader remember of painting which suggested so much as the faintest shadow of these people, or of their deeds?
38923What sort of a thing is a"celestial"lance?
38923What, then, was actually the Greek god?
38923Which Pope renders thus:--"O, say, what angry power Elpenor led To glide in shades, and wander with the dead?
38923Who shall gainsay them?
38923Who shall gainsay these men?
38923Why fathom line?
38923Why meet and flow?
38923Why not have said at once, if that is all you mean, that two mists met, and one drove the other back?
38923Why snow- white?
38923Wounded her with a celestial lance?
38923and that in the 23rd paragraph-- How does the imagination show itself in dealing with truth?
38923can''st work i''the ground so fast?"
38923were not the gods in some sort his husbandmen, and spirit- servants?
38923why battlement?
38923why massy?
38923§ 4, as imperative on all great art, that it shall be inventive, and a product of the imagination?
17478The rose and poppy are her flowers; for where Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent And soft- shed kisses and soft- shed sleep shall snare? 17478 Where is this contract?
17478Why do n''t you finish that Christ?
17478... Was it a dream?
17478Again, was it in four years and by renewed labour never really completed, or in four months and as by stroke of magic, that the image was projected?
17478And did he study such merely from broken stones and pieces of coal, from twigs and weeds in his painting- room?
17478Are these figures always his own?
17478Art is adjectival, is it not, O Donatello?
17478But a piece of pork in a naked hand?
17478But if it has been a dream, how could I have learned to hum that tune out of_ Dinorah?_ Ah, is it that tune, or myself that I am humming?
17478But if it has been a dream, how could I have learned to hum that tune out of_ Dinorah?_ Ah, is it that tune, or myself that I am humming?
17478But what real artist would care to undertake such a responsibility?
17478But, after all, it may be asked, is a painter like Botticelli, a second- rate painter, a proper subject for general criticism?
17478By this we mean, upon whom has subject so acted that it has seemed to direct_ him_--not to be arranged by him?
17478By various gestures he can express:"What do I care?"
17478By what process was this picture produced?
17478By what strange affinities had she and the dream grown thus apart, yet so closely together?
17478Can he, with a few masterly touches and taking no more trouble than things are worth, indicate lace- work, or suggest jewellery, or rich embroidery?
17478Could any closeness of individual imitation give the truth, beauty of colour, and luminous sunlight of this picture?
17478Could anything more appropriate, or noble, be devised for a refectory than a parting meal which the whole world will reverence for ever?
17478Did Alfred de Musset know these veiled forms that seem to float over the meadow and did he think of them in the sleeplessness of his nights of May?
17478Did I not always suspect it?"
17478Did he consult Brunellesco in the construction of his Greek Temple, or Donatello or Ghiberti for the statue inside?
17478Did he know the legend of Helen of Troy, or had he to seek the advice of some scholar like Nicolli or Poggio for the right tradition?
17478Do you maintain in good faith that Rembrandt in the_ Night Watch_ excels in treating them thus?
17478Do you not notice rather a resemblance to the fortifications of Milan, with the Porta Romana and the Porta San- Lorenzo?
17478Does he treat a stuff well?
17478Does it deserve the importance attached to it?
17478Does it follow that he really does paint as well as is commonly supposed?
17478Does it not seem as if in thus fixing it from the first day, Rubens intended that neither he nor anyone else should forget it?
17478Does it not seem that your eye is upon a vision of a fête by Boucher, shown by his pupil in Tasso''s garden?
17478Finally, is it necessary to speak of the date of the_ Primavera_?
17478First of all, though, what has the story of Judith to do with mythology?
17478From his imagination, or from some old missal or choir- book illumination?
17478Had he any fellow- pupils?
17478Had he any masters?
17478Had he no instincts to tell him that his art could have little to say to a legend?
17478Have we any need to add that, like Rembrandt, the painter of painters, he died poor?
17478Have we been to Holland?
17478Have we heard the chimes at midnight at Antwerp?
17478Have we not the man complete in his work?
17478Have you noticed in_ L''Embarquement de Cythère_ all those naked little forms of saucy and knavish Loves half lost in the heights of the sky?
17478How shall we represent the soft plenitude of a living form and the curves of limbs which flow into the leaning body?
17478However, hitherto we have only examined the body, what shall we say about the head to give a true idea of it?
17478If we wished to symbolize the genius of every painter in an allegorical picture, would it be any other than the angel of Urbino?
17478In the background, between the feet of the consol- table, is seen a vase of Japanese porcelain: why not of Sèvres?
17478Is it indeed the King who has arrived and is about to enter?
17478Is it purely emblematic, or does it contain an allusion to some private matter?
17478Is it white tinged with yellow?
17478Is it yellow faded to white?
17478Is the guard loading his musket rendered any better?
17478Is there anything here, either in the foreground or the background that suggests Jerusalem?
17478Is there anything more touching?
17478Is there more in the individual figures?
17478Is this ignorance, think you, in Giotto, and pure artlessness?
17478May we not wisely judge ourselves in some things now, instead of amusing ourselves with the painting of judgments to come?
17478Might he not, had he chosen, in either fresco, have made the celestial visions brighter?
17478Moreover, what do you think of his right- hand neighbour, and of the drummer?
17478Suppose the_ Saturday Review_ critic were to come suddenly on this picture?
17478The picture, if it is a good one, should have a deeper interest, surely on_ this_ postulate?
17478Then is Paul Potter a very great painter?
17478Then is it a beautiful picture?
17478Then where did Raphael find this serenity if not in himself?
17478To what school did he belong?
17478Transcriber''s Notes:{ a} Possible typo for sinister?
17478Was there any need for Giotto to have put the priest at the foot of the dead body, with the black banner stooped over it in the shape of a grave?
17478Were we really away for a week, or have I been sitting up in the room dozing, before this stale old desk?
17478What became of Paul Potter?
17478What could Michael Angelo reply to such an emphatic wish expressed so distinctly?
17478What could be simpler, shorter, and more fully accomplished?
17478What could one whose pencil had scarcely travelled beyond the limits of St. Giles''s, know of the inner secrets of St. James''s?
17478What does he think of the"Van der Helst"which hangs opposite his_ Night- Watch_, and which is one of the great pictures of the world?
17478What does their dreamy solemnity mean if not,"the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman"?
17478What is his execution in the picture before us?
17478What is the meaning of this little imaginary or real being, who, however, is only a supernumerary while yet holding, so to speak, the chief rôle?
17478What is to be done?
17478What is to happen?"
17478What is, in that story, the natural, essential( as opposed to the historical, fleeting) fact?
17478What more could we wish?
17478What says Botticelli the painter?
17478What shall we say of the physiognomy, of the grace, and also the penetrating charm of those three child figures?
17478What should Van Oort think of it?
17478What was his life?
17478What was the relationship of a living Florentine to this creature of his thought?
17478When he places a feather at the brim of a hat, does he give it the lightness and floating grace that we see in Van Dyck, or Hals, or Velasquez?
17478Whence came that wonderful landscape with its mountains and cypress trees and strange- shaped ships?
17478Where are they going?
17478Where did he live?
17478Where was he born?
17478Where, then, was he to get his natural facts in the story of Judith?
17478Who then is this Meindert Hobbema?
17478Who will describe the healthy and roseate flesh under the amber transparency of gauze?
17478Why Botticelli and not Giotto, or Fra Angelico, or, to cite none but his contemporaries, why not Signorelli, or Ghirlandajo?
17478Why is it, when looking at this picture, we have moments of divine oblivion in which we fancy ourselves in Heaven?
17478Why is such simple means so highly successful in exalting our feelings?
17478Why is that knuckle of pork not painted out?
17478Why select Botticelli rather than any other artist of the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Century?
17478Why this thought?
17478Why?
17478With what words can we paint the beauty of an attitude, a tone, or an outline?
17478You may play with it, since it is false; and what a play would it not be, well written?
17478_ Hobbema._] What is most admired in this picture of the Dutch Master?
17478at any rate, why is not a little fringe of lace painted round it?
17478or a cut pink paper?
17478or suppose you covered the man''s hand( which is very coarse and strong), and gave him the decency of a kid glove?
35934''But whose fault is all this?'' 35934 And do I not feel, even now, a_ hypocrite_,_ to know_ my path, and yet so often to deviate from it?
35934And yet-- how is it that my pleasure is not unalloyed? 35934 But why so many words?
35934How many objections to a couple of words?
35934Romola][ Illustration:"WILL HIS EYES OPEN?"
35934Shall I make him a painter?
35934To my amazement I have just received a letter from you, dear Mamma--_did_ I give you my direction? 35934 WILL HIS EYES OPEN?"
35934Well, no( says I);"anything in it?"
35934What can he hope for, if I let him prepare for this career?
35934Will you be so kind as to tell Mr. Welsch that my trouble to find the Palazzo Scheiderff was in vain, and I have also unluckily not seen his brother? 35934 Your next question is: Am I comfortably_ settled_ in Rome?
35934''And who have you,''said Leighton one day to a certain Bettino( who is still living),''who resembles your ancient masters?''
35934''Do I fully feel....''No,''Shall I_ continue_ fully to feel the immense importance to me of the three or four years now before me?
35934''What-- how-- shall I build, model, paint?''
35934''Why do I model?''
35934''Why should I build beautifully?''
35934''Why,''he might have answered,''does the lark soar and sing?''"
35934***** Do you know of any one who would do a life- size_ copy_ of a portrait of the Queen in robes for the sum of_ £ 100_?
35934***** If you have leisure to think of anything but Miss Nan just at present, will you do me a favour?
35934About my health?
35934And how are my hopes fulfilled?
35934And now, my Friend, how are you occupied?
35934And whence does all that arise?
35934And yet, what slight cloud was that, I felt pass over my pleasure, casting( I could not help it) an undefined shadow on my heart?
35934And you, dearest Mamma, how are you?
35934And you, my dear friend?
35934Are the Sartorises to be there next winter, and where are they now?
35934Are you equally industrious?
35934But how comes it that Hommel and Hendschel, formerly your enthusiastic pupils, have now cooled down?
35934But the Church of England has not gone as far as that; indeed, great attention is paid to our Church''s architecture; is there no inconsistency here?
35934But what is the good of it all?
35934But what then?
35934But where is Werner?
35934Can you do this for me, and either send it or bring it if you are about to return shortly?
35934Circumstances induce me to deliver a sentiment of a parallel tendency; it''s all very well to say''mind you write''; but where''s the post?
35934Did not I feel startled at being so palpably reminded that the_ child_ Gussy no longer exists?
35934Did you ever hear---- piano- doodle himself?
35934Did your organ of_ veneration_ do its duty?
35934Do you chance to know any one in any of the villages about Bath who could pick up a couple?
35934Do you fully appreciate the immense importance of the epoch?
35934Do you happen to know what is the price of the floors in the house on the Pincio which was built by Byström the sculptor?
35934Do you know this critic?
35934Do you see Cornelius from time to time, and gain anything from him?
35934Do you still sparkle with beautiful inventions?
35934Do you sufficiently feel that you are on the brink of being_ OUT_?
35934Does that not bespeak a curious mental development?
35934Good gracious, where am I running to?
35934Gussy dreams of me as"very handsome"and"are my whiskers growing?"
35934H. How have the photographs turned out?
35934Had I not hoped to note down, at once and in all their freshness, my emotions and impressions just as I should receive them?
35934Has Schwind, with his splendid and varied gifts, ever been able to model a head with a brush?
35934Has anything been settled?
35934Have I described your picture?
35934Have you already started on the other cartoon?
35934Have you fallen in with either of the new married couples, Wilson or Leslie?
35934Have you forgiven me, dear Friend?
35934Have you heard lately?
35934Have you painted the"Death of Christ"which pleased me so much?
35934He was originally the apothecary of Hahneman( do I spell the name rightly?)
35934Here are records of Nature complicated by no intellectual choice, no academic learning, no results of high education; and what is the result?
35934How are the frescoes of Raphael painted and modelled?
35934How could I pass by such dear old friends without loitering a little among them?
35934How could you be surprised, dear Mamma, at my having begun the pictures?
35934How does Papa take it?
35934How has the experiment with the new ground turned out?
35934How is Miss Nan?
35934How is it that even sensible, clever men are so ill equipped?
35934How is this?
35934How long a holiday shall you take, and did you mean that you are staying with the Sartoris family as a visitor?
35934How, in effect, do the two materials stand to one another?
35934I come to another point which it is difficult to touch with conciseness: have I made any progress?
35934I do n''t mean to hang up my Vintage, but keep it near me on an_ easle_( how do you spell it?).
35934I do wonder at the critics: will they never let"the cat die"?
35934I go there, I believe, next week, but_ where_ I shall be the winter----?
35934I hurry back to the point with my tail between my legs; I was saying, was not I?
35934I must also inform you that he has recently_ taken unto himself a wife_--a fact of which our good Jacob( that is his name, is it not?)
35934I shall stay some weeks in Algiers-- can I do anything for you?
35934I want a Euclid, mine is in England, how shall I get at it?
35934If all goes well, I will arrive in Frankfurt on the 23rd of this month; does that fit in with your plans?
35934If it were not so, why does the candidate send in some of his works for inspection?
35934In the first act he rushes out frantically calling for his sword, to which Lady Capulet replies--"''A crutch, a crutch!--why call you for a sword?''
35934Is it not remarkable that the first artists of the modern day, in the higher walk of art, I mean, are_ Catholics_?
35934Is it this doubt that makes him throw obstacles in my way?
35934Is it to go to Great Castle Street?
35934Is not this an encouragement to industry?
35934Is there any other----?
35934It seems not impossible to me that I may pass through Frankfurt next spring, then we will have a good long gossip together, wo n''t we?
35934Little baby is the same sunbeam that he always was; did I tell you I painted his likeness in oils as a surprise for his father?
35934May not such reminiscences well endear a place to one''s memory?
35934Models are probably cheaper than in Germany-- are you conscious of improvement?
35934Non c''è nessuno ancora?
35934One episode is worth transcribing:"Seen to- day''s paper, sir?"
35934One gets quite sick of_ education_ in Berlin; would you believe that now_ every girl_ has to pass an_ examination as governess_?
35934Or is she so tender of admitting symbols into her bosom, she, whose corner- stone is a symbol: the Last Supper?
35934Shall I fulfil what I have promised?''...
35934Shall I have the energy to carry out all my resolutions?
35934Shall, then, your stay in Italy be ended by the journey which you led me to hope would bring you to see me again?
35934Stuart''s despatch is most gratifying and satisfactory, but I want to see it in print; where is it published?
35934The necessity of taking infinite pains is but the natural and inevitable consequence of the burning desire born, who knows how?
35934This was rather much for him, eh?
35934Those were halcyon days; the questions,''Why do I paint?''
35934Was I then so intolerant in my expressions?
35934Were you so kind as to pay the rent for me as I asked you?
35934What becomes of the Frankfurt house?
35934What did Pasta say of_ her_?
35934What did poor Haydon( for I_ have_ read the book) get by his mordant gift of satire and his devouring thirst for ink?
35934What has happened about the church you were to paint?
35934What have you done with Steinle-- what heard of Gamba?
35934What impressions has it left on me?
35934What is about the compass of your voice?
35934What man or woman ever acknowledged being jealous?
35934What manner of children should we be, if we would not kiss the rod when we are chastised?
35934What now?
35934What shall I tell you about myself, my dear friend?
35934What suits a salmon- coloured ribbon?
35934What was it that gave Leighton this position?
35934What words can give an idea of such a sight?
35934What, on the other hand, are the advantages of oil?
35934When I spoke to you so freely of the others, was that not a plain proof of how completely I except you?
35934When did you make these charming drawings?
35934When is it you expect to be here?
35934When is the wedding to be?
35934When shall I see one of your works again?
35934Where is there a place where the artist could soar higher than in Rome?
35934Where is there a town in which every stone has greater, more splendid things to tell us of every period?
35934Who is----?
35934Who knows but that it was at one of these notable picnics that Browning was inspired to write his wonderful little poem on the Campagna?
35934Who was the friend that called up these lively images in your mind?
35934Why imitate the uncomfortable line of that conventional rag?
35934Why is a tub of water with a goose in it lighter than one without?
35934Why should I not put him there?
35934Why_ did_ you make yourself so pinched and sad- looking, Fay?
35934Will you do me a_ great_ favour-- for my friend Hébert, to whom I am under great obligations?
35934Will you do this for me?
35934Will you forgive me, for old friendship''s sake, if I put in a word here, to which you need not give the smallest attention?
35934Will you forgive my silence, and write to me?
35934Will you please let me have her present direction, as I do n''t know it?
35934Will you wait so long, or shall I seek an opportunity to send you your seven things?
35934With what intentions did I begin to write this( journal)?
35934Would they feel happy if they saw a Masaccio, a Ghirlandajo, a Carpaccio?
35934You wo n''t sell it, will you?
35934[ 13] On the 16th July all the schoolboys go on a three weeks''journey, whose wing but yours can take care of me for so long a time?
35934[ MY VERY DEAR MAMMA],--How could you for one instant suppose that I could suspect you of coldness towards me?
35934[ Sidenote: I am reminded,]"''Do you mean,''I hear you urge,''to come to the point, and tell us how you like Venice?''
35934_ Can the river offer its fountain a drink?_*****[ Sidenote: Pebble I.]
35934_ Who reports_ me to have sneered at----?
35934and Papa and the girls?
35934and to speak also sometimes of the thousand little incidents that fall in one''s path, and which form the arabesque round the chapter of life?
35934ca n''t you somehow get it and let me have it?
35934did I not tell you the size of them?
35934do you no longer regard me as your pupil?
35934do you not feel what a store of artistic cowardice lies behind your words?
35934do you not know the quantity of figures in the composition?
35934eh?
35934feel that they will be the corner- stone of my career, for good or for evil?
35934glowing, flooded with light, clear as amber, and do you twig the_ grey_ canvas?
35934or is it already over?
35934or( which is more important) in what_ tessitura_ do you sing with least discomfort?
35934that I involuntarily shrink from grasping the height of my wishes?
35934the amiable inmate of this charming snuggery; where his pupils?
35934what are you working at now?
35934what do you think of this for an English girl?
35934what is nature there for?
35934what will he say to the epistle I have just sent off?
35934why not tell me all?
35935Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?
35935What is this, O Sheykh, that thou hast done to us? 35935 Who,"I hear some one say,"is this dreamer of dreams, who hopes to cure by talking such deep- seated evils?
35935Will you accept,Lady Strangford wrote,"as a token of my admiration of your house, a piece of ancient Persian needlework?
35935''And who have you,''said Leighton one day to a certain Bettino( who is still living),''who resembles your ancient masters?''
35935( Do you see any elements of danger?
35935***** My tempera is come from Italy, and I am told that it is made of the tails( feelers?)
35935*****_ October 16, 1894._ Will you kindly advise me on the tempera, of which I send a tube?
35935After the first hour he reasoned with himself, and said:"Brabs( perhaps?)
35935Am I wrong in thinking the action of the charcoal on it has been to render it more_ drying_?
35935And if few, I ask why is this so?
35935And if we are tolerant of treason against fitness in architecture, what shall we say of our tolerance in regard to its sculptural adornments?
35935And is n''t that the reason why the copy of a picture can never be really like an original?
35935And you, dear Master, what are you working at?
35935Are not statues multiplying in our streets?
35935Are there different kinds of Aureolin?
35935Are these not facts patent to all, and do they not seem to cut from under your feet the ground on which you seek to stand?"
35935Are you writing to Gussy?
35935Are your cartoons all finished?
35935At all events, if a man must illustrate, why does he not illustrate Shakespeare, a bigger man head and shoulders than any of the Greek tragedists?
35935Because Leighton is not Whistler, or Watts is not Sargent, why must the one be admired at the expense of the other?
35935But is this even rare?
35935But now the question arises, ought the canvas to be_ prepared_?
35935But why a selection at all?
35935By- the- bye, do you hear or know anything of those two drawings I did of you and Mrs. Browning?
35935Can you tell me when the practice was changed?
35935Did he"to laugh me,"as the fish did by Hosseyn?
35935Did you by chance write the note?
35935Did you receive a letter of mine from Castle Howard?
35935Do you aim at the wider extension of artistic education in this country?
35935Do you demur?
35935Do you know the music?
35935Do you think that would be necessary?
35935Had they wine in this district?
35935Have I already told you the subject of my religious picture?
35935Have you read"Sylvia''s Lovers"?
35935He was, undoubtedly still is, a very gifted man, but had to guard somewhat, had he not?
35935Her face and hair, though deliciously beautiful, are not just the thing-- how could they be?
35935How am I?
35935How are you, darling?
35935How can such an attitude of intimate sympathy belong to the many?
35935How is she?
35935How should they be?
35935How soon will the sealing sands give rest at last to those steadfast, expectant eyes?
35935How would it strike you to wait a month or two, having now laid the foundation?
35935How_ could_ she go on the stage?"
35935However, I shall wear a brave face, and who knows but that some good may arise to me out of this?
35935I also use cadmium_ red_; is that wrong?
35935I asked him"what he thought of it"?
35935I ca n''t say more, can I?
35935I enjoyed myself at Panshanger very much-- did I write to tell you who our party was?
35935I know this mixture_ wo n''t come off_, but why should it?
35935I may say this without presumption, because the great question which we are discussing:"How can Art be made most useful to England?"
35935I pensier miei già de''miei danni lieti Che fian se s''a due morti m''avvicino L''una m''è certa, l''altra mi minaccia?
35935I suppose one ought not to use it, ought one?
35935I suppose"Mutrie yellow"is quite safe alone and mixed with other pigments?
35935I would_ try_ to recover it-- I hate losing letters, do n''t you?
35935If so, will you give the one of you to Hookes that he may send with some other things he has?
35935If the first painting is a year old, is it not tough enough to resist the atmosphere, and is it not_ anyhow_ pretty safe when the canvas is_ backed_?
35935If the madders are in themselves sound colours, as I have always understood them to be, how do they lose their permanence by burning?
35935In all one''s dealings with Leighton what did one find?
35935In sum, I ask myself what the outcome is-- what_ is_ the selection?
35935In the name of Cellini-- nay, in the name of common sense, why?
35935Is it Napier of_ Magdala_?
35935Is it not a pleasant change to have that opening made through the walls of the city, so as to see the sky and the mountains?
35935Is it not of constant occurrence?
35935Is it not_ always_ better to have_ some_ resin in a picture_ throughout_ since it has to be varnished at the end?
35935Is not architecture, as an art, finding at this time increasing, if tardy, acceptance at the hands of private individuals?
35935It would never have occurred to me to ask myself the question, Are there not_ pipes_ or something?
35935MY DEAR LEIGHTON,--Shall I confess it?
35935MY DEAR SIR FREDERIC,--Have any of the multitude of men who love you ever called you Chrysostom?
35935Maria Novella?
35935May I come on Tuesday afternoon for both?
35935Mrs. Orr wrote:"When the official will had been drawn up and signed, he said,''Does this give my sisters absolute control over all I have?''
35935Ne me suis je pas fait plaisir en vous reconnaissant du talent et en vous rendant la justice qui vous est due?
35935Now I presume he means"Gum Dammar"( I believe there is such a thing, is there not?
35935On being asked the next day, as he came into our house,"How is it?"
35935On the lawyer answering in the affirmative, Leighton asked,''Then no one can interfere with them?''
35935Or did he merely mean to say that, if the Valley of the Nile had not turned north- west between Keneh and Manfaloot, it might have turned north- east?
35935Or do you tax the great municipal bodies of England with remissness on this score?
35935Shall we reach Assouan to- day?
35935Shall you soon begin your frescoes?
35935Syria is a poor Chili; the Libanus is a mole- hill compared with the Andes-- do you remember?
35935The Arabs say_ kokh_( guttural ending); is this a mere coincidence, and does the word date beyond the Crusades?
35935Then why is the best talent not enlisted in this work?
35935This room was whitewashed, but so roughly bedaubed that the plain deal cupboards, the doors of which formed the only embellishment(?)
35935Two walls are already finished, are they not?
35935View of Assiout(?).
35935WHY?
35935Was there ever criticism worth adjustment?
35935We have enough to say and look at, surely, for two mornings-- one by ourselves?
35935Well, what then is our charge in respect to the present relation of the country to art?
35935What are the shortcomings for which we are here to seek a remedy?
35935What are you working at just now?
35935What easel pictures have you undertaken?
35935What has become of Mrs. Sartoris?
35935What hitherto unfulfilled ends do you seek to achieve?
35935What is it that impresses us most in the contemplation of the artistic activity of this race?
35935What other beautiful things have you composed?
35935What rank or privilege needs art supreme-- Immortal child of buried states and powers-- Who can for us the golden age renew?
35935What will poor Browning do if she dies?
35935When is the fresco to be begun?
35935When such an one as Leighton is working on great lines, the last thing he thinks of is, Who is really achieving the work?
35935Where is the solution?
35935Where was thy favouring grace, O Sheykh?
35935Where, indeed, for vigour of invention, can we find a drawing to surpass these few pencil lines?
35935Whether his special gifts guide his passion, or his passion his gifts, who can say?
35935Who is the woman?
35935Will it be published by itself and obtainable in some handier form than the broadsheet of the_ Times_?
35935Will you forgive me for all this, dear master?
35935Will you look at it by the original?
35935Would you have an instance of this high consciousness?
35935Would you like to look at it again from curiosity?
35935Wull, have I not buy it?
35935_ Is_ the sakkea my friend or my enemy?
35935_ January 27,(?)
35935_ Monday, February 1,(?)
35935_ brun foncé_?
35935am I a sailor?
35935and Lina and Gus?
35935and Papa?
35935and do you know when or how he died, if he be indeed dead?
35935and how is Mamma?
35935and the tobacco, was it not good?
35935and"How can the best work of artists be made to influence the rest of the community?"
35935but surely you did n''t offer it me before?
35935cracking?
35935darkening?)
35935did I not give thee a shirt when we last came by?
35935e se me la rompi pas?
35935half Irish?
35935half Norse?
35935he know we have roast meat-- how he know that?"
35935how do you expect me to get her off-- or on?
35935if so will you tell her that I mean to give her some lessons with Hallé when she comes to London?
35935if so, I knew the old lord of that ilk; indeed, to be accurate, I knew him even if it was not so; or Lord Napier of_ Ettrick_?
35935in what have we been wanting towards thee?
35935involves the two other questions:"What are the best conditions under which artists can work?"
35935say at the Athenæum, or here a little later?
35935si vous m''avez donné l''occasion de vous faire part de ma vieille espérance n''est ce pas une preuve de l''estime que vous faites de mes conseils?
35935the slave is my sheep-- is it not my slave?
35935was the roast meat not sufficient?
35935we all exclaimed,''what shall we do?
35935what a state of things, and who shall ever let the light into the tenebrous and foul depths?
35935what would you have felt at the sight?
35935which shall I begin with, to tell you that I delight in Baby''s toes or that exquisite poetry in the scene where Romola is standing?
35935why are we thus punished?"
35935why do you come to me about your boat?
35935why shall I mind?
44329But is not that just what they do?
44329But may they not be just so nicely mixed out of something and nothing, as to float where they are wanted?
44329But may they not be quill- feathers, and have air inside them? 44329 But may they not have nothing inside their quills?"
44329Down the stalk?
44329How?
44329Knowest thou the balancings of the clouds?
44329Nay, but though unlike boats, may they not be like feathers? 44329 The wondrous works of Him which is perfect in knowledge?"
44329What is the use of them,he said,"but together?
44329What need had it to be elsewhere? 44329 Who can understand his errors?"
44329&# 8220;At a certain distance?"
44329''And now how do you live?''
44329''And what are you now?''
44329''Brooklime?''
44329''Have you been a sailor?''
44329''Is your mother a painter?''
44329''What do you call it lime for?''
44329''You are a Scotchman, are not you?''
4432970. Who shall say how many humors the little thing has in its mind already; or how many adventures it has passed through?
44329A blue horizontal bar of the air that Titian breathed in youth, seen now far away, which mortal might never breathe again?
44329A church spire having been left out in a sketch of a town--"Why did you not put that in?"
44329A city of marble, did I say?
44329A vulgar man would assuredly have been cautious, and asked"who it was?"
44329Admitted?
44329And was it not well to trust to such keepers the guarding of the golden fruit which the earth gave to Juno at her marriage?
44329And who are these workers?
44329And, beyond that mortality, what hope have we?
44329And, secondly, what bends each of them into these flame- like curves, tender and various, as motions of a bird, hither and thither?
44329Are neither blue, but only white, producing blue when seen over dark spaces?
44329Are you as well satisfied with it?
44329Beside her, childish labor( lesson- learning?)
44329But how do you discern the equality?
44329But how for next?
44329But how shall it come?
44329But if this is so, how does the original stem, which never lengthens, ever become the tall trunk of a tree?
44329But is this indeed so delightful?
44329But to us, as artists, or lovers of art, this is the first and most vital question concerning a plant:"Has it a fixed form or a changing one?
44329But to what purpose?
44329But what is it at_ e_?
44329But what is to be done next?
44329But what is_ that_?
44329But what pleasure can be in a boat?
44329But why, the reader will ask, is no place given in this scheme to the"Christian"or spiritual art which preceded the naturalists?
44329By sight?
44329By the Fleming, she had been despised; what mattered the heavenly colors to him?
44329By what hands is the incense of the sea built up into domes of marble?
44329Can the dust of earth claim more of immortality than this?
44329Comprehended?
44329Could he breathe or see, but that Christ breathed beside him and looked into his eyes?
44329Does that mean according to rule?
44329Eddies of wind?
44329En quel nombre?
44329Fierce murmurers, answering each other from morning until evening-- what rebuke is this which has awed them into peace?
44329Fifteen hundred years of spiritual teaching were called into fearful question, whether indeed it had been teaching by angels or devils?
44329For all practical purpose, might it not as well be out of the text?
44329For what can we conceive of that first Eden which we might not yet win back, if we chose?
44329Granted whatever you choose to ask, concerning its material, or its aspect, its loftiness and luminousness,--how of its limitation?
44329Has it hidden a cloudy treasure among the moss at their roots, which it watches thus?
44329Has the reader any distinct idea of what clouds are?
44329Has the reader ever considered the relations of commonest forms of volatile substance?
44329Has the reader ever considered, carefully, what is the meaning of"doing"a thing?
44329Has there been no Resurrection?"
44329Have you ever thought what a world his eyes opened on-- fair, searching eyes of youth?
44329Here is at last one who confesses them, but is it well?
44329Here is perhaps the first question which an intelligent child would think of asking about a tree:"Mamma, how does it make its trunk?"
44329How can they be drawn asunder, yet not allowed to part?
44329How is a cloud outlined?
44329How is it that at a certain height this vertical trunk ceases to be built; and irregular branches spread in all directions?
44329How of the herb yielding_ no_ seed,[4] the fruitless, flowerless lichen of the rock?
44329How of the radiating ones?
44329How, then, did its art so swiftly pass away?
44329How, then, do the two minor circles change into one large one?
44329If any one asks, respecting the broken roofs,"What did it?"
44329If by words,--how do you know their meanings?
44329If either blue, or white, why, when crimson is their commanded dress, are the most distant clouds crimsonest?
44329If ever in autumn a pensiveness falls upon us as the leaves drift by in their fading, may we not wisely look up in hope to their mighty monuments?
44329If so, how less important than form?
44329If the depth or thickness of these streams be such as at_ b_ and_ c_, what will their thickness be when they unite at_ e_?
44329Is English wet weather, indeed, one of the things which we should desire to see Art give perpetuity to?
44329Is it not peace?
44329Is it the watery vapor, or the air itself, which is blue?
44329Is it well to watch them as Turner does, and strive to paint them through all deficiency and darkness of inadequate material?
44329Is its flame quenchless?
44329Is the answer ever to be one of pride?
44329Is the vulgarity, then, only in trying to play a part you can not play, so as to be continually detected?
44329Is_ our_ knowledge ever to be so?
44329Is_ this_, then, all the book I have got to read about God in?"
44329It dries, that is, becomes volatile, invisibly, at( any?)
44329It might do so in the Anacreontic temper--[Greek: Ti Pleiadessi, kamoi];"What have I to do with the Pleiads?"
44329Lapped in pale Elysian mist, chilling the forgetful heart and feeble frame, shall we waste on forever?
44329Lastly: What kind of people have we on this winding road?
44329May not all their particles be minute little balloons?"
44329May not chance and the whirl of passion govern us there; when there shall be no thought, nor work, nor wisdom, nor breathing of the soul?
44329May we, indeed, lie down again in the dust, or have our sins not hidden from us even the things that belong to that peace?
44329No matter how ugly it is,--has it anything about it like Maiden Lane, or like Thames''shore?
44329On what anvils and wheels is the vapor pointed, twisted, hammered, whirled, as the potter''s clay?
44329Or has some strong enchanter charmed it into fond returning, or bound it fast within those bars of bough?
44329Or shall we have even so much as rest?
44329Or suppose the fish had been cut and stitched finely out of skin and whalebone; yet, cast upon the waters, had not been able to swim?
44329Or those war- clouds that gather on the horizon, dragon- crested, tongued with fire;--how is their barbed strength bridled?
44329Or, is it wiser and nobler-- like Claude, Salvator, Ruysdael, Wouvermans-- never to look for them-- never to portray?
44329Ought we to admire their colors, or despise them?
44329Our English artists naturally painted it often and rightly; but are their pictures the better for it?
44329Phorcys( Orcus?
44329Prudent little sapling!--but how does he manage this?
44329Put the fine dresses and jewelled girdles into the best group you can; paint them with all Veronese''s skill: will they satisfy you?
44329Revelation to what?
44329Shall I find it always as I do to- day-- this Parnassia palustris-- with one leaf and one flower?
44329Shall we begin with one or two easiest questions?
44329So far only as you give him these can he serve you; that is the meaning of the question which his Master asks always,"Believest thou that I am able?"
44329Take out the faces; leave the draperies, and how then?
44329The poor Jew, Zimri, who slew his master, there is no peace for him: but, for us?
44329The question before us now is, therefore, What value ought this attribute of clouds to possess in the human mind?
44329The visible cloud of frankincense-- why visible?
44329They should have asked simply, was it a true message?
44329Thus, then, for the last time, rises the question, what is the true dignity of color?
44329To a nature incapable of receiving truth?
44329To the same person producing a sketch, which had no special character:"What are you in_ search_ of?"
44329Was he not always with him?
44329Was it a blue cloud?
44329Was it a mirage-- a meteor?
44329Was it ochre?--said the world-- or red lead?
44329Was not the Val d''Arno, with its olive woods in white blossom, paradise enough for a poor monk?
44329We have seen how mountains are beautiful; how trees are beautiful; how sun- lighted clouds are beautiful; but can rain be beautiful?
44329Well: what hinders us from covering as much of the world as we like with pleasant shade and pure blossom, and goodly fruit?
44329Were these Thaumantian things so, in the real universe?
44329What are the heavens?
44329What are we to do?
44329What did he see in Maiden Lane?
44329What has it to do with that clump of pines, that it broods by them and weaves itself among their branches, to and fro?
44329What has the black vine trellis got to do?
44329What hews it into a heap, or spins it into a web?
44329What is it that throws them into these lines?
44329What is that?
44329What is the world which they are to"fight with,"and how does it differ from the world which they are to"get on in"?
44329What is their motive?
44329What says he of himself?
44329What separates these thousands of clouds each from the other, and each about equally from the other?
44329What should make it bind itself in those solid mounds, and stay so:--positive, fantastic, defiant, determined?
44329What then is a"creation"?
44329What was the distinctive effect of light which he introduced, such as no man had painted before?
44329What, let us ask next, is the ruling character of the person who produces-- the creator or maker, anciently called the poet?
44329What, then, is the use of asking the questions?
44329When people read,"the law came by Moses, but grace and truth by Christ,"do they suppose that the law was ungracious and untrue?
44329When the time comes for us to wake out of the world''s sleep, why should it be otherwise than out of the dreams of the night?
44329Where are set the measures of their march?
44329Where ride the captains of their armies?
44329Wherein lies the difference?
44329Who can stand before his cold?")
44329Who else could shepherd such?
44329Who forbids its valleys to be covered over with corn, till they laugh and sing?
44329Who shall come after us?
44329Why is this?
44329Would it stay to be approached?
44329Yes: but why not before?
44329and are those gates that keep the way indeed passable no more?
44329hast thou ever heard of these fair and true daughters of Sunset, beyond the mighty sea?
44329here in thine own land, too, wilt thou not cease from cheating?
44329or could Christ be indeed in heaven more than here?
44329or is it not rather that we no more desire to enter?
44329or may it some day have incalculable pomp of leaves and unmeasured treasure of flowers?
44329or why then?
44329or word?
44329tiara on head, may we not look out of the windows of heaven?"
44329what bits are these they are champing with their vaporous lips; flinging off flakes of black foam?
44329what hand has reined them back by the way by which they came?
44329§ 17. Who_ giveth_ peace?
8162A special permission granted to him by the State?
8162Are you going to get a new canvas?
8162But you ca n''t paint yellow ochre on yellow ochre without getting it dirty?
8162Do you know,cried one painter to the other,"that nothing is more interesting to paint than a shepherd on the banks of_ a river_?"
8162Do you see that man copying the right- hand corner of the picture? 8162 If not at Kensington nor at the Beaux Arts, where am I to obtain the education I stand in need of?"
8162May I ask, sir, if you know what that picture represents?
8162Really; may I ask who says so?
8162Sir, wo n''t you put down your name for a ten- guinea proof signed by the artist?
8162Then, perhaps, you will take one at five-- the same without the signature?
8162Yes, is n''t it superb?
8162221 is in feeling and quality of workmanship a Dutch picture of the best time?
8162A decoration for where?
8162And are the coming Associates Mr. Hacker, Mr. Shannon, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Alfred East, Mr. Bramley?
8162And are there not excellent reasons for holding to this opinion?
8162And did not Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney begin to paint almost immediately after the victories of Marlborough?
8162And did not our Elizabethan drama follow close upon the defeat of the Armada, the discovery of America, and the Reformation?
8162And do not the attitudes of the two women leaning over the side represent their suffering?
8162And how?
8162And if he apprehended danger and would save us from it, why did he choose to ask his friend M. Bouguereau to exhibit at the Academy?
8162And is not every picture that fails to move, to transport, to enchant, a mistake?
8162And the blossoms on the trees, are they not touched in with the lightness of hand and delicacy of tone that you desire?
8162And what else is Mr. Hacker''s execution?
8162And when we ask ourselves if the picture has style, is not the answer: It is merely the apotheosis of fashionable painting?
8162And who sits in this delicate boudoir perfumed with a faint scent, a sachet- scented pocket- handkerchief?
8162And, after all, what is art but rhythm?
8162Are not the grey and the dark green sufficiently contrasted?
8162Are the individual temperaments of Terburg, Metzu, and Peter de Hoogh very strikingly exhibited in their pictures?
8162Are the proportions of the figure correctly measured, and are the anatomies well understood?
8162Are there not other modern and special signs which distinguish the nineteenth century French schools from all the schools that preceded it?
8162Are they not the very legs that the gutter breeds?
8162Are we not looking into the heart of nature, and do we not hear the silence that is the soul of evening?
8162Are women without souls, or is it that they dare not reveal their souls unadorned with the laces and ribbons of convention?
8162As I stood lost in admiration of this drawing, I heard a rough voice behind me:"C''est bien beau, n''est pas?"
8162Because each face is drawn in its distinctive lines, and each tells the tale of instincts and of race?
8162Because nothing has been omitted that might have been included, because nothing has been included that might have been omitted?
8162Because the clothing is in its accustomed folds and is full of the individuality of the wearer?
8162Because the colour is harmonious, and though low in tone, rich and strong?
8162Because the painting is clear, smooth, and limpid and pleasant to the eye?
8162Because the scene is like a real scene passing before your eyes?
8162But can we credit Mr. Dicksee with any artistic intention in the picture he calls"Leila", hanging in the next room?
8162But does Monet merit this excessive patronage, and if so, what are the qualities in his work that make it superior to Sisley''s and Pissaro''s?
8162But if no danger need be apprehended, why did Sir Frederick trouble to raise the question?
8162But if the drawing when judged by the highest standard fails to satisfy us, what shall be said of the colour?
8162But is any one of these pictures complete in itself?
8162But is it a beautiful picture?
8162But is the drawing distinguished, or subtle, or refined?
8162But is there any real analogy between a dressmaker''s shop and a picture gallery?
8162But is this Manet''s final achievement, the last word he has to say?
8162But the ordinary show-- a collection of works by a tenth- rate French artist-- why should the Press advertise such wares gratis?
8162But were we ever sincere in our praise of him as we are sincere in our praise of Degas, Whistler, and Manet?
8162But what has physical condition got to do with painting?
8162But why alter the colour when he could keep it in such exquisite value?
8162But why is it beautiful?
8162But why should not the Royal Family decorate its palaces with bad art?
8162By the side of this picture do not all the other pictures in the gallery seem like little painted images?
8162Can we point to any blue in Mr. Watts''as fresh and as beautiful as the blue carpet under the Princess''s feet?
8162Can you detect anywhere a measurement?
8162Compared with this drawing, would not Holbein seem a little geometrical?
8162Did Ruysdale paint direct from nature or from drawings?
8162Did a frock coat flap out in the wind so well before?
8162Did his art suffer from want of education?
8162Did it save Alfred Stevens, the great sculptor of his generation, from the task of designing fire- irons?
8162Did that dear, good doctor entertain any hopes of the poor little thing''s recovery?
8162Did the early masters paint first in monochrome, adding the colouring matter afterwards?
8162Do they owe their art to a wise festheticism, or to a fortunate limitation of sight?
8162Do we not seem to know her?
8162Do you perceive a base, a fixed point from which the artist calculated and compared his drawing?
8162Has any attempt been made to compose the colour, to carry it through the picture?
8162Has not the Academy for the last five- and- twenty years lent the whole stress and authority of its name to crush Mr. Whistler?
8162Has not the Princess Louise, the artist of the family, publicly exhibited sculpture?
8162Has not the Queen published, or rather surreptitiously issued, certain little collections of drawings?
8162Has the nineteenth century brought any new intention into art which did not exist before in England, Holland, or Italy?
8162He does not hesitate, he consults no one-- and why should he?
8162How could they refuse?
8162How her head- dress of large laces decorates the paper, and the elaborate working out of the pattern, is it not a miracle of handicraft?
8162How many of us can say as much?
8162How much did Mr. Whistler take from the Japanese?
8162How much did Rubens take from Titian?
8162How often did the Academy refuse Cecil Lawson''s pictures?
8162How often have they passed him over?
8162How should it?
8162How should poor Smith see anything in the picture except what Mr. Whistler wittily calls"rather a foolish sunset"?
8162I know of no more tragic story-- do you?
8162If the sky''s beauty can be expressed by a symbol, why can not the beauty of men and women be expressed in the same way?
8162In each instance the question asked was-- what opportunity do they afford for the display of marvellous human form?
8162Ingres''drawing is one thing, Raphael''s is another; still I would ask if any one thinks that Raphael could have carried a drawing as far as Ingres?
8162Inwardly we answer,"All you say is most interesting; but why did n''t you put all that into your picture, into your novel?"
8162Is Mr. Jones the only instance of a man being elected to the Academy who had never exhibited there?
8162Is it because of the individual character represented in the faces?
8162Is it possible to regard the"Last Judgment"as anything else but a coloured bas- relief, more complete and less perfect than the Greeks?
8162Is she not equally an exhortation to be wise?
8162Is the ambition of Manchester and Liverpool limited to paltry imitations of the Chantrey Fund collection?
8162Is the colour deep and sonorous, like Alfred Stevens''red velvets; or is it thin and harsh, like Duran?
8162Is this so?
8162It is slight, and so most typical; for, surely, no age was ever so slight in its art as ours?
8162Know ye the land where Botticelli and Filippo Lippi dreamed immortal dreams?
8162Know ye the land, Italy in the fifteenth century?
8162Know ye the land?
8162Know ye the land?
8162Look at the embroideries on the dresses, are they not delicate?
8162Look at the gesture of the hand on the right; is not the association of ideas strangely intimate, curious, and profound?
8162Monet sees clearly, and he sees truly, but does he see beautifully?
8162Mr. Whistler''s portrait reveals certain general observations of life; but has he given one single touch intimately characteristic of his model?
8162Must we then conclude that all education is an evil?
8162Of course this is very"daring", but is it anything more?
8162Often a reactionary says,"Name the good pictures that have been rejected; where can I see them?
8162One rubbed one''s eyes; one said, Is this a joke, and, if so, where is the point of it?
8162Or did their eyes see it, and did they disdain it?
8162Or should I say reformation, for the execution by a series of dots is implicit in the theory of the division of the tones?
8162Or was it that Manet had begun to yield to an influence-- that of Monet, Sisley, and Renoir-- which was just beginning to make itself felt?
8162Or who shall challenge the technical beauty of Velasquez or of Hals, or the technical dexterity of Terburg, or Metzu, or Dow, or Adrian van Ostade?
8162Or, to put the case more clearly, surely Morland would have seen very much as Mark Fisher sees if he had lived in the nineteenth?
8162See these lines, are they not in themselves beautiful?
8162Shannon?"
8162She is dressed in a long white garment neither beautiful nor explicit: is it a nightdress, or a piece of conventional drapery?
8162Surely Mark Fisher would have seen more beautifully if he had lived in the eighteenth century?
8162Take, for example, the pencil drawing in the Louvre, the study for the odalisque: who except a Greek could have produced so perfect a drawing?
8162That hat is so well placed in the canvas; the expression of the face and body, are they not perfect?
8162The Princess Beatrice, has she not done something in the way of designing?
8162The face charms us with its actuality; but is there a touch intimately characteristic of the model?
8162The figure, the man that the wind blows out of the picture, his hat about to leave his head, is not he really on board in a gale?
8162The ordinary man''s aversion to such ugliness seems to me to be entirely right, and I only join issue with him when he says,"Why paint such subjects?"
8162The picture is excellent, but why is it excellent?
8162Then this art is wholly irresponsible-- it grows, obeying no rules, even as the flowers?
8162Then why the site, and why the Royal charter?
8162Then why were they elected?
8162There is no such thing as cosmopolitanism in art?
8162This is not quite clear, is it?
8162Those blacks-- are they not perfectly observed?
8162To appreciate the sublime height, must we not know something of the miserable depth?
8162We have Free Trade in literature, why should we not have Free Trade in art?
8162What did the Luxembourg do for Corot, Millet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissaro?
8162What has our Academy done to rescue struggling genius from poverty and obscurity?
8162What is the complementary colour of blue, grey, and orange?
8162What should we think of a man who said that he did not know which he preferred- a poem by Tennyson, or a story out of the_ London Journal_?
8162What would the Athenians have thought of Pericles if he had proposed the ornamentation of the city with Persian sculpture?
8162When Titian painted the"Entombment of Christ", what did he see?
8162When they did accept him, was it not because he had become popular in spite of the Academy?
8162Whence did the belief originate?
8162Where is the drawing visible except in the result?
8162Who does not know this man?
8162Who has not suffered from his importunities?
8162Who shall rival the splendours, the profusion of Veronese, the opulence of Tintoretto, the richness of Titian, the pomp of Rubens?
8162Why does not Liverpool or Manchester buy one of these masterpieces?
8162Why exaggerate; why outstrip the plain telling of the facts?
8162Why has he not bought an Ingres, a Corot, a Courbet, a Troyon?
8162Why has he showed such excessive partiality for squint- eyed Italian saints?
8162Why not add that he was neither a tennis player nor a pigeon shot, a waltzer nor an accomplished French scholar?
8162Why not?
8162Why paint such subjects?"
8162Why should it not choose the most worthless portrait- painters of all countries?
8162Why should not every artist go into the market without title or masquerade that blinds the public to the value of what he has to sell?
8162Why should not the humanitarianism of Mr. Tate induce him to give his money to science instead of to art?
8162Why stop at all, unless the neighbours protest that we are interfering with their complementaries?"
8162Why then should one be a picture and the other no more than a bald illustration?
8162Why will the art patron never take advice?
8162Why, notwithstanding its extraordinary genius, does it come last in merit as it comes last in time amongst the world''s artistic epochs?
8162Why, then, should our newspapers waste space on the description of pictures which not one reader in fifty has seen or will see?
8162Why, with better brains, and certainly more passion and desire of achievement, does the French school fall behind the English?
8162Why?
8162Would the child live or die?
8162and in what fancied substance of fact did it catch root?
8162and who is that gentleman?"
8162are they not sharp, clear, and flowing, according to the necessity of the composition?
8162by the State?"
8162do not the star- flowers come in the right place?
8162do they not bring to your eyes a sense of repose and unity?
8162is his an enchanted vision?
8162is not the yellow in harmony with the grey and the green?
8162or is it mere parade of knowledge and practice of hand?
8162or is it merely a vivacious appearance?
8162were we ever as mad as that?"
8162what are trees after having had one''s soul elevated?"
8162whence did it spring?
47363''Oh, you do, do you? 47363 ''Why do you get mixed up with such things?
47363And where have you studied?
47363And who do you suppose I am?
47363Are you bearing any part of the costs?
47363But have you paid him the three hundred francs he has already lent you?
47363But still the journey of Haarlem occupied his mind, and before I left him it came out:''Well, you are going to Haarlem early to- morrow? 47363 But vill he pay, zis Vistlaire, vill he pay?"
47363But what are you doing?
47363But what does it do for you?
47363But what have I done? 47363 But what is it?
47363But what is to become of my wife and family if I do n''t get my wages, sir?
47363But what matter?
47363But what of the beautiful old Spanish leather? 47363 Do we not speak the same language?
47363Do you call it a good piece of art?
47363Dragoon, what horse is this?
47363Except in England, would anything short of perfection in art be praised?
47363H''m, paints, too, do n''t he, among his other accomplishments?
47363He was every evening at the students''balls, and never got up until eleven or twelve in the morning, so where was the time for work?
47363I said,''Why did you ask him to the Rue du Bac?'' 47363 Is n''t it in the heart of the unknown?
47363It was indeed a pleasure to hear his gay voice, after he had received our card, calling down from the top of the stairs,''Are you there? 47363 Learn it?
47363May I beg to correct an erroneous impression likely to be confirmed in your last number? 47363 Me?"
47363My God, Van Dyke, where did you get your shoes?
47363Suppose one of these plates was smashed?
47363Then,said Mr. Bigham,"Mr. Sickert is an insignificant and irresponsible person who can do no harm?"
47363There was the real Whistler-- the man, the artist, the painter-- there was no''Why drag in Velasquez?'' 47363 Well, Joseph, how long do you think it took me to paint that, now?"
47363Well, you know, ca n''t I hold something?
47363Well,said Whistler,"do you call yourself a good piece of Nature?"
47363What are you going to do with them all?
47363What is to be done?
47363What matter?
47363What would London journalists say if they could see me now?
47363What would you?
47363What''s Degas?
47363What?
47363Where have you studied?
47363Where is the sting?
47363Who is that?
47363Who''s Whistler?
47363Why approve the tolerable picture any more than the tolerable egg?
47363Why not try to find it?
47363Why should I? 47363 Why, no,"Whistler answered;"ought that to make any difference?"
47363You are working together then?
47363_ Assez bien, Monsieur, assez bien._"_ It votre petit Américain?_To which she replied, not looking up,"_ Lui?
47363_ Assez bien, Monsieur, assez bien._"_ It votre petit Américain?_To which she replied, not looking up,"_ Lui?
47363_ Que voulez- vous?_Ernest said mournfully,"_ les saisons m''ont toujours devancé_!"
47363''A little late for that, is it not?''
47363''Do you know where we are going?''
47363''I say, Mr. Whistler, what is this?''
47363''Rather late to ask_ me_, do n''t you think?''
47363''Well now, what do you think of that?
47363''What will he make of_ this_?
47363''What''s the matter?''
47363''What''s the use of me coming?''
47363''When?''
47363''Why should I?''
47363''Your doorway?
47363''_ Et vous?_''the_ sergent de ville_ asked at last.
47363After we had been to the exhibition, he asked us for every detail:"How did the white, the beautiful napkins look?
47363And I called to them and they came in, and Howell said:''Why, you have etched many plates, have n''t you?
47363And I said,''Why, gentlemen, why-- well, you know, how could I think of anything but the pleasure of seeing you again?''
47363And Leyland?
47363And Michael Angelo?
47363And Mr. Watts, a great mon, he said to me,"How do you like it?"
47363And does he then, in his astounding consequence, believe that a symphony in F contains no other note, but shall be a continued repetition of F F F?...
47363And the further question is whether the insult offered-- if insult there has been-- is of such a gross character as to call for substantial damages?
47363And then I asked,''Where is Jemmie, of whom I have heard so much?''
47363Another afternoon he and J. were walking in the Strand when a well- known English artist stopped him with,"Why, my dear old Jimmie, how are you?
47363Are those figures on the top of the bridge intended for people?"
47363Are we strangers, then, or, in our Father''s house are there so many mansions that you lose your way, my brother, and can not recognise your kin?...
47363As one of them the_ man_ may weep-- yet will the artist rejoice, for to him is not''a thing of beauty a joy for ever''?"
47363At home every Englishman does his duty-- appears in his dinner jacket at the dinner hour-- and so, what difference what the Boers are doing?
47363Bowen_:"Are the pictures works of art?"
47363Bowen_:"Is that picture in your judgment worth two hundred guineas?"
47363Bowen_:"Is the_ Nocturne in Blue and Gold_ a serious work of art?"
47363Bowen_:"Now, take the_ Nocturne in Black and Gold-- The Falling Rocket_, is that, in your opinion, a work of art?"
47363But he said:"Well, you know, what would have happened to the new Thackeray if I had n''t been willing?
47363But the old members say that when the Prince went downstairs with one of them his remark was:"Who is that funny little man we have been talking to?"
47363Did n''t the other cases seem vulgar in comparison?
47363Did n''t the slight hint of blue in the Japanese stand and the few perfect plates tell?
47363Did n''t the whole United States Navy, headed by the admirals, receive him as the Commander of the Spanish Fleet should be received?"
47363Dinna ye hear the bagpipes?"
47363England?
47363Fish, of course?
47363Freer paid for it within a year of his death?
47363Go in for football, no doubt?
47363Godwin,''I said,''will you marry Jemmy?''
47363Godwin?''
47363Have I done you any harm?"
47363Have you consulted him?"
47363He said to us one day:"Now, they want these things; why did n''t they want them twenty years ago, when I wanted to do them, and could have done them?
47363He said,''If you can not manage your palette, how are you going to manage your canvas?''
47363He stammered, spluttered, and finally gasped out,''How dare you?
47363He turned to the judge and said:"And now, my Lord, may I tell you why we are all here?"
47363He went to the trouble to write down for us the lines of the_ Woodchuck_:"_ How much wood would the woodchuck chuck If the woodchuck could chuck wood?
47363He wiped the canvas here and there tenderly with a silk handkerchief and kept turning round to ask triumphantly,"Is n''t she beautiful?"
47363His answer was:"If any one likes to think I was born in Baltimore, why should I deny it?
47363His face fell when, asking the officer, who, like Major Whistler, was in the artillery,"Professor of Tactics, I suppose?"
47363How dare you?''
47363How did they all get together?
47363How much individuality, save the master''s, is shown in Rubens''canvases, mostly done by his pupils?
47363I described Wedmore as Podsnap-- an inspiration, is n''t it?
47363I suppose you shoot?
47363If I get him to move the box of oranges?
47363Is it a question of feet and inches when you look at her?"
47363Is n''t it amazing?
47363Is n''t it beautiful?"
47363Is not clothedness a distinct type and feature of our Christian faith?
47363Look at this; did you ever see anything finer?"
47363Miss Chapman also remembers Swinburne sitting at Mrs. Whistler''s feet, and saying to her:"Mrs. Whistler, what has happened?
47363O''K.,[11] is it possible?
47363Of a superior amateur he inquired,"Have you been through college?
47363One he asked:"And how long will you be''the man in possession?''"
47363Phillip looked up my address in the catalogue and wrote to me at once to say he would like to buy it, and what was its price?
47363Russia, then?
47363Some were just begun, others ready to bite, but a number ought to be printed, and would I help him?
47363Taking a hansom, late of course, they passed a grocer''s where Whistler stopped the driver:"Well, Chase, what do you think?
47363The Judge, thinking to help him, suggested,"A Protestant, perhaps?"
47363The cabman drew up, looked down at him, looked him over, and said,"Where did yer buy yer''at?
47363The old woman, huddled on the steps, did not look up:"_ Eh bien, Madame Gérard, comment ça va?_"Lamont asked.
47363The question for the jury is, did Mr. Whistler''s ideas of art justify the language used by Mr. Ruskin?
47363The report was shown him, and he said to the instructor:''Have I your permission to speak?''
47363The"Why drag in Velasquez?"
47363Then Major Sackett, the commander, would call out:"Mr. Whistler, are n''t you a little ahead of the squad?"
47363Then Whistler was astonished:"What, Chase, you can think of dinner and time when we are doing such beautiful things?
47363Then he suddenly raised his head and demanded,''Can a man get a chop there?''
47363There is a legend that he and Mark Twain met for the first time at a dinner, when they simultaneously asked their hostess who that noisy fellow was?
47363They might look a trifle green, they might suddenly run when the ship rolled-- but what matter?
47363They say,''Why not call it"Trotty Veck,"and sell it for a round harmony of golden guineas?''"
47363They were a terrible nuisance, and we remember in particular the youth who came with the usual question,"Is Whistler painting the gambler?"
47363To me it is interesting as a picture of my mother; but what can or ought the public to care about the identity of the portrait?"
47363To these he said:"Where have you studied?"
47363Was it not preposterous that there should be other books to be prepared, other matters to be thought of, while this great work of art was being born?
47363Well, now, if I was absent without your knowledge or permission, how did you know I was absent?''
47363What do you think?"
47363What has happened?"
47363What if Cervera did get whipped?
47363What if he was pulled up from the sea looking like a wad of cotton that had been soaked in an ink- bottle?
47363What is it?''
47363What of it?
47363What was he to do?
47363What was it all about, anyhow?
47363What was its history?
47363What was to be done with copper- plates?
47363What would he have thought of all this, he who so carefully selected the prints"kindly lent their owners?"
47363What?"
47363When he was asked,"Then you would do away with all the art schools?"
47363Whistler turned slowly to J. and said,"Joseph, do you know this person?"
47363Whistler?"
47363Whistler?"
47363Whistler?"
47363Whistler?''
47363Whistler?''
47363Who is snoring?"
47363Who owns_ The Façade of San Marco_?
47363Why question the_ if_?
47363Why should he be disturbed?
47363Will you kindly remove them?"
47363Yes?
47363You have been told that over and over again?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Can you tell me how long it took you to knock off that Nocturne?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Do you not think that anybody looking at the picture might fairly come to the conclusion that it had no particular beauty?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Do you offer that picture to the public as one of particular beauty, fairly worth two hundred guineas?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Do you think it fair that Mr. Ruskin should come to that conclusion?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Is it a gem?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Is it a work of art?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Is it an exquisite painting?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Is it very beautiful?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Is it worth two hundred guineas?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Not a view of Cremorne?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"What is the peculiar beauty of that picture?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"Why do you call Mr. Irving an_ Arrangement in Black_?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"You do n''t approve of criticism?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"You expect to be criticised?"
47363_ Attorney- General_:"You send them to the gallery to invite the admiration of the public?"
47363_ Horsley soit qui mal y pense_ is meanwhile a sweet sentiment-- why more-- and why''morality''?"
47363_ The Judge_:"How long did it take you to paint that picture?"
47363_ The Judge_:"Is this part of the picture at the top Old Battersea Bridge?
47363_ The Judge_:"That is a barge beneath?"
47363_ Whistler_:"I beg your pardon?"
47363and did n''t the simplicity of my silver, evidently for use and cared for, make the rest look like museum specimens?"
47363but that, after all, was_ not_ an answer, was it?
47363received simply the reply:''Is n''t that a good surface?''"
47363said his examiner,"you do not know the date of the battle of Buena Vista?
35995All the gods,says a French essayist,"delight in worship: is one lesser for the other''s godhead?
35995And I heard a voice among the reapers saying,''Am I Jerusalem the lost adulteress? 35995 And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet Could fetch it from the furnace deep And in thy horrid ribs dare steep?
35995Are not the joys of morning sweeter Than the joys of night?
35995Burnt in distant deeps or skies The cruel fire of thine eyes? 35995 But I arose, and sought for the mill, and there I found my Angel, who, surprised, asked me how I escaped?
35995Can that be love which drinks another as a sponge drinks water? 35995 Can that which was of woman born In the absence of the morn, While the soul fell into sleep And(?
35995Can the sower sow by night, Or the ploughman in darkness plough?
35995I also asked Isaiah what made him go naked and barefoot three years? 35995 I then asked Ezekiel, why he eat dung, and lay so long on his right and left side?
35995Let her be offered up to holiness: Tirzah numbers her: She numbers with her fingers every fibre ere it grow: Where is the Lamb of God? 35995 Must the generous tremble and leave his joy to the idle, to the pestilence, That mock him?
35995Nature averse to crime? 35995 O what avail the loves and tears of Beulah''s lovely daughters?
35995O what land is the land of dreams? 35995 Or what was it that he took on That he might bring salvation?
35995Redemption by forgiveness of sins? 35995 Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific?
35995The caverns of the grave I''ve seen, And these I showed to England''s queen; But now the caves of Hell I view, Who shall I dare to show them to? 35995 Then I asked,''Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?''
35995True, then, if you will have it; but what have we to do with your good or bad poetries and paintings?
35995Undeniably; but what are we to gain by your deductions and discoveries, right or wrong?
35995Was Jesus born of a virgin pure With narrow soul and looks demure? 35995 Was Jesus humble?
35995Was Jesus_ chaste_? 35995 What is the joy of heaven but improvement in the things of the spirit?
35995What was he doing all that time From twelve years old to manly prime? 35995 What, are you here?"
35995When wilt thou return and view My loves and them to life renew? 35995 Why should I be bound to thee, O my lovely myrtle- tree?
35995''Obey your parents''?
35995''Shall the clay demand of the potter, why hast thou made me thus?''
35995''Show us Miracles''?
35995''Then what is he Who shall accuse thee?
35995''There is no man unless the child can become a man''; is that equivalent to a denial of manhood?
35995''Woman, what have I to do with thee?
35995( might not one reply with Thersites,"Make that demand of thy Maker?
35995***** Does the whale worship at thy footsteps as the hungry dog?
35995--What was thy love?
35995A body subject to be tempted, From neither pain nor grief exempted, Or such a body as could not feel The passions that with sinners deal?
35995Abel is dead, and Cain slew him; We shall also die a death And then-- what then?
35995Adam, wilt thou, or Eve, thou, do this?
35995After this Bromion, with less musical lamentation, asks whether for all things there be not one law established?
35995Again,"Will any one say, Where are those who worship Satan under the name of God?--where are they?
35995And another voice answered saying,''Does the voice of my Lord call me again?
35995And canst thou die that I may live?
35995And canst thou pity and forgive?''"
35995And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
35995And did those feet in ancient time Walk over England''s mountains green?
35995And in what rivers swim the sorrows?
35995And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic mills?
35995And was the holy Lamb of God On England''s pleasant pastures seen?
35995And what are the worst sins we can do-- we who live for a day and die in a night?
35995And when will they renew again and the night of oblivion be past?
35995Are then these virtues predicable of it even as such?")
35995Are there other wars, other sorrows, and other joys than those of external life?
35995Are these the sacrifices of Eternity, O Jehovah?
35995Ask the wild ass why he refuses burdens, and the meek camel Why he loves man: is it because of eye, ear, mouth or skin, Or breathing nostrils?
35995Before recasting the whole, Blake altered the second line into--"Canst thou any secret keep?"
35995Boast of high things with humble tone, And give with charity a stone?"
35995But as a great man then alive and yet living[8] has well asked--"What mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third?"
35995But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I show you yours?''
35995But what evil is here for us to do, where the whole body of things is evil?
35995Can a Poet doubt the Visions of Jehovah?
35995Can you have greater Miracles than these?
35995Can you make a God worth worship out of that?
35995Canst thou return to this dark hell And in my burning bosom dwell?
35995Charge visionaries with deceiving?
35995Could heart descend or wings aspire?
35995Could spiritual force so far descend or material force so far aspire?
35995Did he who made the lamb make thee?"
35995Does not the eagle scorn the earth and despise the treasures beneath?
35995Does not the great mouth laugh at a gift?
35995Does the still spider view the cliffs where eagles hide their young?
35995Eve, seest thou also?
35995For if the soul suffer by the body''s doing, are not both degraded?
35995For what are we to make of a man whose work deserves crowning one day and hooting the next?
35995For what more is there now to say of the man?
35995For who but a Divinity Could mingle souls to that degree And melt them into ecstasy?
35995God being a spirit, and to be worshipped in spirit and in truth, are not all his gifts spiritual gifts?
35995Grant such a God his chance of existence, what reason has the Theist to suppose or what right to assume his wisdom or his goodness?
35995Hath no man condemnèd thee?''
35995He who shall take Cain''s life must also die, O Abel; And who is he?
35995His words are worth quoting:--"When will the Resurrection come, to deliver the sleeping body From corruptibility?
35995I come your King and God to seize; Is God a smiter with disease?''"
35995I now asked my companion which was my eternal lot?
35995If continents have a soul, shall suburbs or lanes have less?
35995In what clay and in what mould Were thine eyes of fury rolled?"
35995Is this Death?
35995Is this the Promise of Jehovah?
35995Is this the Serpent?
35995Is this thy Promise that the Woman''s Seed Should bruise the Serpent''s Head?
35995Jerusalem thy sister calls; Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And chase her from thy ancient walls?
35995Let me see''t; Was it love or dark deceit?''
35995Men who devote Their life''s whole comfort to entire scorn, injury, and death?"
35995Moses commands she be stoned to death: What was the sound of Jesus''breath?
35995My sin thou hast forgiven me; Canst thou forgive my blasphemy?
35995Nature forbid that thing or this?
35995Neither set would have to do with him; was he not a believer?
35995O what shall I call thee, Form Divine, Father of Mercies, That appearest to my Spiritual Vision?
35995O when, Lord Jesus, wilt thou come?
35995Of that terrible"emanation,"hitherto the main cornerstone of offence to all students of Blake, what can be said within any decent limit?
35995Of whom else should a man ask?
35995Of"the soft Oothoon"the great goddess asks now"Why wilt thou give up woman''s secrecy, my melancholy child?
35995Or call men wise for not believing?"
35995Or does he scent the mountain prey, because his nostrils wide Draw in the ocean?
35995Or does the fly rejoice because the harvest is brought in?
35995Or is it because Jealousy[A] Gives feminine applause?"
35995Or were Jew virgins still more cursed, And more sucking devils nursed?"
35995Or were they idiots and madmen?
35995Pray''st thou for riches?
35995Shall it not?
35995She has no hope in all the infinity of space and time;"who shall bind the infinite with an eternal band, to compass it with swaddling bands?"
35995Strip the sentiments and re- clothe them in bad verse, what residue will be left of the slightest importance to art?
35995Tell me what is a thought?
35995Tell me what is joy?
35995Tell me where dwell the joys of old?
35995Tell me where dwell the thoughts forgotten till thou call them forth?
35995That clouds with jealousy his nights, with weepings all the days?
35995The German- flute colour, which was used by the Flemings( they call it burnt bone), has[?
35995The day''s spider kills the day''s fly, and calls it a crime?
35995The eternal"Après?"
35995The flower makes answer; does God not care for the least of these?
35995Then Theotormon broke his silence, and he answered; Tell me what is the night or day to one overflowed with woe?
35995These are hard sayings; who can hear them?
35995This the North American tribes practise; and is he honest who resists his genius or conscience, only for the sake of present ease or gratification?"
35995Thou Angel of the Presence Divine, That didst create this body of mine, Wherefore hast thou writ these laws And created hell''s dark jaws?
35995Thy joys are tears: thy labour vain, to form man to thine image; How can one joy absorb another?
35995To Lord Byron in the Wilderness.--What dost thou here, Elijah?
35995To the surprising final query,"Are such things done on Albion''s shore?"
35995Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away?
35995Two questions arise at first sight; did Cromek give Blake a commission for his design of the"Pilgrims"?
35995Unnatural is it?
35995Was he then idle, or the less About his Father''s business?
35995What God is he writes laws of peace and clothes him in a tempest?
35995What are its mountains and what are its streams?
35995What are the pains of hell but ignorance, bodily lust, idleness, and devastation of the things of the spirit?"
35995What book can be more promising?"
35995What could be made of such a man in a country fed and clothed with the teapot pieties of Cowper and the tape- yard infidelities of Paine?
35995What crawling villain preaches abstinence and wraps himself In fat of lambs?
35995What is it that can be?
35995What is it that has to be saved?
35995What is it women do in men require?
35995What mighty soul in beauty''s form Shall dauntless view the infernal storm?
35995What pitying Angel lusts for tears and fans himself with sighs?
35995What says he?
35995What vengeance dost thou require?
35995When wilt thou pity as I forgive?"
35995When wilt thou return and live?
35995Where doth he hide his terrible head?
35995Where goest thou, O thought?
35995Where is my golden palace?
35995Why darkness and obscurity In all thy words and laws, That none dare eat the fruit but from The wily serpent''s jaws?
35995Why did Du Chaillu get so angry when he was chaffed about the Gorilla?
35995Why dost thou despise Ahania, to cast me from thy bright presence into the world of loneness?
35995Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds From every searching eye?
35995Why hast thou taught my Theotormon this accursed thing?
35995Why is a chrysalis like a hot roll?
35995Why is a wide- awake hat so called?
35995Why should I be troubled?
35995Why should love be sweet, Usèd with deceit, Nor with sorrows meet?"
35995Why should you prove ungrateful to your friends, Sneaking, and backbiting, and odds- and- ends?"
35995Why?
35995With what sense does the bee form cells?
35995With what sense does the tame pigeon measure out the expanse?
35995With what sense is it that the chicken shuns the ravenous hawk?
35995[ 16] Could God bring down his heart to the making of a thing so deadly and strong?
35995[ 16] What the hand dare seize the fire?"
35995[ 34] Query"Putting?"
35995a broken spirit And a contrite heart?
35995am I pure through his mercy and pity?
35995and are not all other men fools, sinners, and nothings?
35995and has not Jesus Christ given his sanction to the law of ten commandments?
35995and his swift and fiery daughters, Where do they shroud their fiery wings and the terrors of their hair?"
35995and if sure of his God, what better should he do?
35995and if the body be oppressed for the soul''s sake, are not both the losers?
35995and in what gardens do joys grow?
35995and in what houses dwell the wretched Drunken with woe forgotten, and shut up from cold despair?
35995and is not he visible in Jesus Christ?
35995and of what substance is it made?
35995and the narrow eyelids mock At the labour that is above payment?
35995and upon what mountains Wave shadows of discontent?
35995and was he not a blasphemer?
35995and where the ancient loves?
35995and why?
35995and wilt thou take the ape For thy counsellor, or the dog for a schoolmaster to thy children?
35995are not different joys Holy, eternal, infinite?
35995be as poor Abel, a Thought; or as This?
35995bear false witness when he omitted making a defence before Pilate?
35995covet when he prayed for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them?
35995did Stothard, when Cromek proposed that he should take up the same subject, know that the proposal was equivalent to the suggestion of a theft?
35995does he look upon the sun and laugh, or stretch his little hands into the depths of the sea?"
35995does his eye discern the flying cloud As the raven''s eye?
35995have not the mouse and frog Eyes and ears and sense of touch?
35995in whose cast clothes will you crawl into heaven by rational or religious cross- roads?
35995is the son of a king warmed without wool?
35995is this Brotherhood?
35995make him as''Bacon and Newton''"( Blake''s usual types of the mere understanding)?
35995murder those who were murdered, because of him?
35995or am I Babylon come up to Jerusalem?''
35995or could any lesser dæmonic force of nature take to itself wings and fly high enough to assume power equal to such a creation?
35995or did he Give any lessons of chastity?
35995or did he Give any lessons of philosophy?
35995or did he Give any proofs of humility?
35995or does he cry with a voice of thunder?
35995or does he measure the expanse like the vulture?
35995or where shall any traveller find a rest for feet or eyes in that noisy and misty land?
35995redeem, not the spiritual man by inspiration of his spirit, but the bodily man by application of his arguments?
35995steal the labour of others to support him?
35995things impossible to discover, to analyze, to attest, to undervalue, to certify, or to doubt?
35995to what remote land is thy flight?
35995turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery?
35995what Angel?
35995what God?
35995what, of the assertion of his vindicated sanity with such appalling counterproof thrust under one''s eyes?
35995whence his acceptance and whence his rejection of anything that is?
35995where is the promise of his coming?
35995where life is, shall not the spirit of life be there also?
35995where my ivory bed?
35995where the joy of my morning hour?
35995who commanded this?
35995why should my heart and flesh cry out?
35995why this and not that?