Ers Paris Critical Notes on the Louvre (Classic Reprint)

European galleries, but, unfortunately for the gallery visitor, they are either wholly descriptive of obvious facts or they are historical and archaeological about matters somewhat removed from art itself. In them the gist of a picture its value or meaning as art is usually passed over in silence. It seems that there is some need of a guide that shall say less about the well-worn saints and more about the man behind the paint-brush; that shall deal with pictures from the painters point of view, rather than that of the ecclesiastic, the archaeologist, or the literary romancer; that shall have some sense of proportion in the selection and criticism of pictures; that shall have a critical basis for discrimination between the good and the bad; and that shall, for these reasons, be of service to the travelling public as well as to the art student. This series of guide-books attempts to meet these requirements. They deal only with the so-called old masters. When the old masters came upon the scene, flourished, and ceased to exist may be determined by their spirit as well as by their dates.
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