How to Study Pictures By Means of a Series of Comparisons of Paintings And Paint
How to Study Pictures By Means of a Series of Comparisons of Paintings And Paint
Charles Henry Caffin
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That artist had published a "Liber Veritatis. " Turner would outrival him w^ith a "Liber Studiorum, " though the drawings, engraved under the artist's supervision, were not studies but finished water-color pictures. In fact, this collec- tion of seventy-one out of the hundred plates originally planned, while a monument to Turner's genius, is also the assertion of a rivalry that, in itself unworthy, w^as conducted in a spirit scarcely fair. For Claude's " Liber Veritatis " is simply a sketch-boo...k, and the sketches were [ 298 ] CONSTABLE-TURNER engraved after their author's death, indeed, not until Turner's day. But the latter's finished productions were issued under his own eye. Turner's rule of conduct, in fact, was " aut Csesar aut nullus. " Having established his supremacy over rivals, at least to his own satisfaction, he set himself to conquer a universe of his own. During a period of twelve years, beginning with this picture of Ulysses and ending with that of a tug-boat towing to a wrecker's yard a ship of the line.
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