This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Brethren, who painted the picture that most nearly had the " look " of a Primitive wall. For, having set to work hotfoot and with their first ideas burning in their minds, the Pre-Raphaelites turned out their first pictures--the Lorenzo and Isabella, the Rienzi, and the Girlhood of Mary Virgin. Fine, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Brethren, who painted the picture that most nearly had the " look " of a Primitive wall. For, having set to work hotfoot and with their first ideas burning in their minds, the Pre-Raphaelites turned out their first pictures--the Lorenzo and Isabella, the Rienzi, and the Girlhood of Mary Virgin. Fine, finely painted, and inspiring as the Lorenzo really is, it is impossible when one looks at it to avoid seeing how skilful an exercise it is in the manner of the early masters. And when one sets it side by side with the Rienzi and the Girlhood, one sees how much more imitative it is than either: how much less sincerely it is inspired by the rules of Pre-Raphaelism. For Rossetti's maiden effort is na'ive and in places childish--but it is an honest attempt to render what he saw. And Mr Hunt's picture has no doubt defects--nevertheless that too is a rendering of what the painter had actually seen. But, whilst painting the Lorenzo and Isabella, Millais was very obviously trying to look at his mediaeval subject with the eyes of a mediaeval Italian painter. He was painting an exercise in the manner of the Primitives--and that was not Pre-Raphaelism. The flat "look" of the picture; the cramping of the figures into an unreasonably small space; the skilfully defective perspective of the line of the table as it recedes into the background; the unreasonably straight leg of the brother kicking the grey hound (Millais can never have seen any model so kick any object, since it would be impossible to deliver any kind of blow with a limb so extended to its utmost limits); the costumes themselves, and the profiles of all the faces save one, all these things go to prove that Millais was not painting a modern reconstitution of aan ancient scene. And it must be...
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