The Old Masters And Their Pictures, for the Use of Schools And Learners in Art;
The Old Masters And Their Pictures, for the Use of Schools And Learners in Art;
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With harmonious composition, good drawing and colouring, his pictiures alike profited and suffered from the classical atmosphere in which they had their being. They gained in that correctness which in its highest form becomes noble truthfulness, but they lost in freedom. The figures in the pictures had frequently the statuesqueness which in sculpture suits the material, but in painting is sti&ess.
Nicolas Poussin had an exceptional reputation for a historical painter in his day. As a landscape ...painter, Mr Ruskin, while waging war with Nicolas Poussin's brother-in-law and assumed namesake, Gas- par, notably excepts Nicolas firom his severest 19 290 The Old Masters stricturesi and treats his efiforts in landscape pamting with marked respect At the same time, however, the critic censures the painter for a want of thorough acquaintance with nature, and the laws of nature^ ignorance not uncommon in any day, and nearly uni- versal in Nicolas Poussin's day. ' The great master of elevated ideal landscape/ Mr Ruskin calls Nicolas Poussin, and illustrates his excellence in one respect, after contrasting it with the slovenliness of Sir Joshua Reynolds, by describing the vine in Poussin's * Nurs- ing of Jupiter,* in the Dulwich Gallery, thus : — * Every vine-leaf, drawn with consummate skill and untiring diligence, produces not only a true group of the most perfect grace and beauty, but one which in its pure and simple truth belongs to every age of nature, and adapts itself to the history of all time.' * One of the finest landscapes that ancient art has produced, the work of a really great mind,' Mr Ruskin distinguishes the ' Phocian ' of Nicolas Poussin in the National Gallery, before proceeding to point out its faults.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
With harmonious composition, good drawing and colouring, his pictiures alike profited and suffered from the classical atmosphere in which they had their being. They gained in that correctness which in its highest form becomes noble truthfulness, but they lost in freedom. The figures in the pictures had frequently the statuesqueness which in sculpture suits the material, but in painting is sti&ess.
Nicolas Poussin had an exceptional reputation for a historical painter in his day. As a landscape ...painter, Mr Ruskin, while waging war with Nicolas Poussin's brother-in-law and assumed namesake, Gas- par, notably excepts Nicolas firom his severest 19 290 The Old Masters stricturesi and treats his efiforts in landscape pamting with marked respect At the same time, however, the critic censures the painter for a want of thorough acquaintance with nature, and the laws of nature^ ignorance not uncommon in any day, and nearly uni- versal in Nicolas Poussin's day. ' The great master of elevated ideal landscape/ Mr Ruskin calls Nicolas Poussin, and illustrates his excellence in one respect, after contrasting it with the slovenliness of Sir Joshua Reynolds, by describing the vine in Poussin's * Nurs- ing of Jupiter,* in the Dulwich Gallery, thus : — * Every vine-leaf, drawn with consummate skill and untiring diligence, produces not only a true group of the most perfect grace and beauty, but one which in its pure and simple truth belongs to every age of nature, and adapts itself to the history of all time.' * One of the finest landscapes that ancient art has produced, the work of a really great mind,' Mr Ruskin distinguishes the ' Phocian ' of Nicolas Poussin in the National Gallery, before proceeding to point out its faults.
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