Word: artists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Discourses, Reynolds ranked historical painting as the highest art. He said that the mere copier of nature could do nothing good, and that the greatest artist is he who most appeals to the imagination. Reynolds did not follow in practice what he believed in theory. His happiest efforts are those in which he followed the precepts of Dutch and Venetian Schools...
...been so very large, and requests for another concert so numerous, that Mr. Ellis has arranged for a farewell matinee at Music Hall, Saturday afternoon, February 9, at popular prices, and this being the week that the Orchestra is away and the last opportunity to hear the great artist at a recital, a tremendous sale is anticipated. M. Ysaye will be heard in works by Raff, Greig, Vieuxtemps, Joachim, and M. Lachaume will also assist...
...request of some of the alumni Professor Lane, during his visit to Europe last summer, sat for his portrait to the distinguished French artist, Bonnat. The portrait, which is to be presented to the University, has lately arrived and may be seen for a time at the gallery of Messrs Doll and Richards, in Park street, Boston. The likeness of the great scholar is said to be an excellent one in every...
...following appeared in the New York Tribune in reference to Ysaye's American debut: "He came and conquered as erstwhile Rubinstein did, and, indeed, suggested no character so much as a Rubinstein of the violin, - an artist with a great, sympathetic, sensitive soul, responsive to every variety of emotion, prompt and generous in its givings out, who makes one forget all about the art of violin playing in the simple enjoyment of the beautiful and impassioned proclamation which he makes...
...descriptions are recollections written in a sick room, after long absence from the scenes of which he wrote. The fact that he was an artist is what we think of most. In "Virginibus Puerisque" he was a conscious artist. If he was in his other works, he succeeds in dissembling the consciousness. Stevenson was forever occupied with the harmonies of prose. The most beautiful passages are in "Virginibus Puerisque...