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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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chitect, sculptor, and painter, he builtchurches thereat, carved her statues and painted her pictureswith lavish hand. Yet the Moorish city has left us scantrecord of him, except of a couple of lawsuits ; but thosetwo lawsuits reveal the temper of the man in rare fashion.The one sees him essaying to compel payment for a picturewhich he doggedly refused to alter at the ordering of theChapter of Toledo ; the other reveals him refusing to paythe common tax of merchandise for the sale of his worksof art; and he relentlessly fought each battle until he wonit. His whole life long he fought that war for the honourof his craft. There is the well-known story of his favouritepupil, Luis Tristan, who, having painted a picture for themonks of the Jeronymite Convent of La Sisla, and findingthe monks refusing to pay his fee of two hundred ducats asexorbitant, referred them to his master, by whose decision116 X EL GRECO 1548 - 1614 VENETIANIST SCHOOL OF TOLEDO FERDINAND THE SECOND OF ARAGON (Louvre)
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THEGENIUS OFHER RACE OF PAINTING he said he would abide—and, on the monks urbanely appear- WHEREINing before El Greco and suggesting that his pupil had made A DUMBsome mistake as he had asked two hundred dollars, El MANGreco, before his assembled pupils, had fallen upon the LEADSyouth Tristan and beaten him with his clenched fist, SPAINcrying out upon him as a scoundrel— How dare you ask * OWARDSa paltry two hundred dollars for a picture worth five spr FNhundred ? and, having belaboured the young fellow, he tjoUR OFturned to the monks and vowed he would buy the picture VENICEhimself, as he would not allow it to be sold for such a sum, AND THEwhich led to the monks craving for the picture and the GREEKeager payment of five hundred dollars ! REVEALS Holding colour alone as of vital import in painting, to J-® HERwhich all else, form, draughtsmanship, and the rest werebut of second necessity, he sought above all things to giveforth the impression aroused by colour in his senses. Heen

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