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Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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gospel of painting direct from the thing seen, whetherfigure or drapery or detail. And with what skill the manwould paint the folds of whitest draperies ! With whatkeen eyes he noted the different types of the monks ofeach of Sevilles many religious orders ! The first greatworks that came from his young hands, the nine canvasesof the History of St. Peter in the cathedral—he was buttwenty-five, in 1623, when he painted them—reveal themans glowing sense of colour, his superb draughtsmanship.Ten years thereafter, in 1633, he painted the series atCadiz that contains the St. Bruno at Prayer and the greataltarpiece of the Church of the Portiuncula at Assist beingrebuilt by St. Francis. At Guadalupe is the series of theLife of St. Jerome. The Museum at Seville holds theCarthusian Series, shows him, in the San Hugo reproving theMonks for eating Flesh, in his more primitive phase, already146 XIII ZURBARAN 1598 - 1661 REALIST SCHOOL OF SEVILLE OR ANDALUSIA MONK AT PRAYER (National Gallery)
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OF PAINTING a master of power. The Prado at Madrid possesses the WHEREIN great monkish paintings of The Vision of San Pedro Nolasco, SPAIN the Appearance of St. Peter to San Pedro Nolasco, and the INCREASES Academy of Fine Arts his St. Benedict in Ecstasy, with its HFR unforgettable girl-angel playing a mandoline. At Berlin is spLEN- the St. Bonaventura displaying the Crucifix, signed and dated 1629—a rare act on the part of Zurbaran—and at Dresden the Election of St. Bonaventura to the Pontificate, both pictures being part of the loot that Soult carried out of Spain, and both painted with great power. Zurbaran was always happiest in his painting of singlefigures, and the National Gallery in London is fortunate inpossessing three fine examples of his art, above all, thesuperb brown-robed Franciscan Monk at Prayer, not onlyone of the greatest of his works, but one of the supremeachievements of all Spain. In that one canvas alone, hadhe painted none other, Zurbaran reveals himself o

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