Painters And Sculptors : a Second Series of Old Masters And New
Painters And Sculptors : a Second Series of Old Masters And New
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919
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From a purely technical point of view, then, this is the supreme distinction of Rembrandt; to have devoted himself to the study of chiaroscuro, to have sacrificed everything else to it, to have attained a knowledge of it beyond that of Tintoretto, beyond that of Correggio, beyond that of any one else be- fore or since ; to have made himself, in this one branch of art, the unapproached and unapproachable mas- ter, and to have taught many other masters the use REMBRANDT: DR. FAUSTUS Engraved thro...ugh the courtesy of the Print Department of the New York Public Library THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUi' jATIONS R 1934 L THE REMBRANDT TERCENTENARY 109 of a tool which, while it would not do in their hands what it did in his, was yet capable of perform- ing tasks he had not set it. This alone would be enough for the glory of almost any artist, but with Rembrandt light and shade is far more than a tech- nical accomplishment. It is mystery and sentiment — a means of expressing the inexpressible and of realising the supernatural — the only means known to art of saying what no one but Rembrandt has said.
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