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Page 124
... painting and was a competent draftsman ) learned , in a more general sense , how to follow the examples of the Impressionist and Postimpressionist painters in their fiction . A spare brilliance of observation , like those paint- ings in ...
... painting and was a competent draftsman ) learned , in a more general sense , how to follow the examples of the Impressionist and Postimpressionist painters in their fiction . A spare brilliance of observation , like those paint- ings in ...
Page 159
... painting . The style derives from the portraits with ludicrously exaggerated features made by the Carracci , an Italian family of artists , early in the 17th century ( Italian caricare , " to overload " ) . In defiance of the theory of ...
... painting . The style derives from the portraits with ludicrously exaggerated features made by the Carracci , an Italian family of artists , early in the 17th century ( Italian caricare , " to overload " ) . In defiance of the theory of ...
Page 332
... paintings by Bruegel and Titian in the convent of the Descalzas Reales ; and Spanish and foreign masters in the ... painting be moved there only after democracy had returned to the country . Notable among an abundance of libraries ...
... paintings by Bruegel and Titian in the convent of the Descalzas Reales ; and Spanish and foreign masters in the ... painting be moved there only after democracy had returned to the country . Notable among an abundance of libraries ...
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