Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers, Edited by Esther Singleton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Editor: Esther Singleton Release Date: January 7, 2006 [eBook #17478] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT PICTURES, AS SEEN AND DESCRIBED BY FAMOUS WRITERS*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Transcriber's notes: Bracketted lower case letters refer to notes at the end of the text{a} At the end of this text I have provided some links to Internet sites which have more information about some of the artists, some of which may have color images similar to the ones presented in this book. ii Fisherman presenting the Ring to the Doge Gradenigo. Bordone. FISHERMAN PRESENTING THE RING TO THE DOGE GRADENIGO. BORDONE.

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great
Pictures, As Seen and Described by
Famous Writers, Edited by Esther
Singleton
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
Editor: Esther Singleton
Release Date: January 7, 2006 [eBook #17478]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Leonard Johnson,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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Transcriber's notes:
Bracketted lower case letters refer to notes at the end of the text{a}
At the end of this text I have provided some links to Internet sites which have more
information about some of the artists, some of which may have color images similar to the
ones presented in this book.

ii
Fisherman presenting the Ring to the Doge Gradenigo. Bordone.
FISHERMAN PRESENTING THE RING TO THE DOGE GRADENIGO.
BORDONE.
iii
Great Pictures
As Seen and Described
by Famous Writers
EDITED AND TRANSLATED
By ESTHER SINGLETON
AUTHOR OF "TURRETS, TOWERS, AND TEMPLES" AND
TRANSLATOR OF "THE MUSIC DRAMAS OF RICHARD WAGNER"
With Numerous Illustrations


NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
ivCopyright, 1899
By Dodd, Mead and Company
v
Preface
The cordial reception of "Turrets, Towers, and Temples" has encouraged me to
hope that a welcome may be given to a book treating the masterpieces of painting in
a similar manner.
Great writers and literary tourists have occasionally been inspired to record the
impressions of their saunterings among galleries and museums. The most
interesting of these, not necessarily professional, I have tried to bring together in the
following pages. My object has been not to make a selection of the greatest pictures
in the world, although many that have that reputation will be found here, but rather to
bring together those that have produced a powerful impression on great minds.
Consequently, when the reader is disturbed at the omission of some world-famous
painting, I beg him to remember my plan and blame the great writers instead of me
for neglecting his favourite.
My task has not been a light one. A few words of rapturous admiration are vi
constantly to be met with in the pages of art-lovers, but a sympathetic study of a
single work is rarely found. General comment of a given artist's work is also plentiful,
while discriminating praise of individual canvases is scanty. The literary selection
has, therefore, involved a great deal of research.
From time to time the relative popularity of painters shifts strangely, but no matter
what inconstant fashion may dictate, or what may be the cult of the hour, certain
paintings never lose their prestige, but annually attract as many pilgrims as Lourdes
or Fusi-San.
Of modern painters I have only included Turner and Rossetti.
It is interesting to compare the example I have chosen from Rossetti with
Leonardo's "Monna Lisa." Pater has admirably brought out, without dwelling too
much upon it, the charm that is eternal in her face as well as the fantastic
imagination of the great artist who created her for all time. He says: "The fancy of a
perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one....
Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of
viith e modern idea." In a similar sense Lilith the siren, the Lorelei, the eternal
enchantress, in her modern robe, is the embodiment of a new fancy, the symbol of
the ancient idea; and just here across four centuries the thoughts of two great artistsmeet.
The types of beauty and women in this book offer no little suggestion to the fancy.
From Botticelli's "La Bella Simonetta," and Raphael's "La Fornarina," through all the
periods of painting the model has been a great influence upon the painter's work,
and upon this point nearly every essayist and critic represented in these pages
dwells. In many of the essays, such as Pater's on Botticelli, and Swinburne's on
Andrea del Sarto, the author strays away from the painting to talk of the painter, but
in doing this he gives us so thoroughly the spirit of that painter that a fuller light is
thrown upon the picture before us.
I have included a few criticisms by modern French critics, MM. Valabrègue,
Lafond, Giron, Guiffrey, and Reymond, recognized authorities upon the artists whose
works they describe; and I have selected Fromentin's valuable essay on "The Night
Watch," feeling sure that this thoughtful criticism would interest even the enthusiastic
admirers of this enigmatical work.
viiiI have been careful to take no unnecessary liberties with the text. In the
translations from Gruyer, Goethe, Fromentin, and others, which were unfortunately
too long to be included entire, I have not allowed myself to condense, but only to cut.
This is true, also, of the English extracts.
E.S.
New York, September, 1899.
ix
Contents
The Fisherman Presenting the Ring to the Doge Bordone 1
Gradenigo
Théophile Gautier.

The Birth of Venus Botticelli 5
Walter Pater.

The Queen of Sheba Veronese 16
John Ruskin.

The Last Judgment Michael 18
Angelo
Alexandre Dumas.

Magdalen in the Desert Correggio 27
Aimé Giron.

Banquet of the Arquebusiers Van der Helst 33
William Makepeace Thackeray.

L'Embarquement Pour l'Île de Cythère Watteau 38Edmond and Jules de Goncourt.

The Sistine Madonna Raphael 45
F.A. Gruyer.

The Dream of St. Ursula Carpaccio 58
John Ruskin.

The Descent from the Cross Rubens 62
xEugène Fromentin.

Bacchus and Ariadne Titian 71
I. Charles Lamb.
II. Edward T. Cook.

The Coronation of the Virgin Fra Angelico 77
Théophile Gautier.

Judith Botticelli 80
Maurice Hewlett.

The Avenue of Middelharnais Hobbema 88
Paul Lafond.

The Dance of the Daughter of Herodias Andrea del 93
Sarto
Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Adoration of the Magi Fabriano 98
F.A. Gruyer.

Portrait of Georg Gisze Holbein 101
Antony Valabrègue.

Paradise Tintoret 106
John Ruskin.

Aurora Guido Reni 114
I. Charlotte A. Eaton.
II. John Constable.

The Assumption of the Virgin Titian 119
Théophile Gautier.

The Night Watch Rembrandt 124
Eugène Fromentin.

The Rape of Helen Gozzoli 138
Cosmo Monkhouse

xiMonna Lisa Leonardo da 142
Vinci
Walter Pater.

The Adoration of the Lamb Van Eyck 154
Kugler.

The Death of Procris Piero di 168
Cosimo
I. Edward T. Cook.
II. John Addington Symonds.
The Marriage in Cana Tintoret 172
John Ruskin.

Madame de Pompadour De la Tour 177
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve.

The Hay Wain Constable 184
C.L. Burns.

The Surrender of Breda Velasquez 191
Théophile Gautier.

The Immaculate Conception Murillo 196
Aimé Giron.

St. Francis before the Soldan Giotto 202
John Ruskin.

Lilith Rossetti 212
Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Adoration of the Magi Dürer 215
Moriz Thausing.

Marriage A-la-Mode Hogarth 218
Austin Dobson.

xii
The Madonna of the Rocks Leonardo da 234
Vinci
Théophile Gautier.

Beatrice Cenci Guido Reni 239
Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Transfiguration Raphael 249
Mrs. Jameson.

The Bull Paul Potter 256
Eugène Fromentin.

Corésus and Callirhoé Fragonard 262
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt.

The Market-Cart Gainsborough 268
Richard and Samuel Redgrave.

Bacchus and Ariadne Tintoret 273
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine.

Bacchus and Ariadne 278
Anonymous.

La Cruche Cassée Greuze 280
Théophile Gautier.

Portrait of Lady Cockburn and Her Children Reynolds 282
Frederic G. Stephens.

St. Cecilia Raphael 287
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Last Supper Leonardo da 289
Vinci
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

The Children of Charles I. Van dyck 300
Jules Guiffrey.

The Fighting Téméraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to be Turner 306
Broken Up, 1838
John Ruskin.

Spring Botticelli 313
Marcel Reymond.

xiii
Illustrations
Bordone Fisherman presenting the Ring to the Venice Frontispiece
Doge Gradenigo
FACING
PAGE
Botticelli The Birth of Venus Florence 6
Veronese The Queen of Sheba Turin 16
Michael The Last Judgment Rome 18
Angelo
Correggio Magdalen Dresden 28
Van der Helst

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