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...most important picture of all, however, and the one that will be longest remembered, is the wonderful portrait of Olivares from the Villahermosa Collection in Madrid, painted by Velasquez in 1624. Throughout Velasquez's life and work. Philip IV and the Count Duke of Olivares exercised the strongest influence upon him, and during the early years of the master's activity as court painter, he produced almost exclusively portraits of the royal family and of Olivares. Of the latter, unfortunately only a limited number are extant; the balance were destroyed when Olivares fell into disgrace in 1643. Though Olivares...
...collection arrived at the museum a few days ago and is now on exhibition in three classes as follows: 1. Upstairs, paintings by early Italian masters: on stairway, pictures by certain French masters, Velasquez, and other Spanish masters; on ground floor, paintings by Rombrandt and other Dutch masters. 2. Original Greek marbles. 3. Renaissance Italian marbles...
...sympathy with the writter, who has the whole field to himself; the other fellow cannot answer back. But Mr. Simonson is very happy in such phrases as these: "Holbein did not paint the court of Henry VIII; he painted the eternal beauties of texture in terms of English noblemen. Velasquez did not paint the court of Philip II; he painted the eternal beauties of light in terms of Spanish noblemen", and in styling Whistler "the poet of the dusk". So, too, though I disagree with Mr. Simonson's doctrine that Whistler is the single message-haven of a century...
...Turner, held in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; from the trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, several Catalogues of Exhibitions held in the Print Department of that Museum. The following books have also been added: Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue; and A Critical Investigation of the so-called Velasquez in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by Mrs. N. H. Pringsheim...
...however, are common to mankind, and only differ in degree and quality as a larger or smaller sum of the best human faculties have been called into exercise. Remembering this, we do not see how any one can fail to be delighted with No. 7, the head by Velasquez, from its color, still beautiful, and its simple, manly treatment; though not in Velasquez's best style, perhaps, it far exceeds in value for study the other pictures there. Of the other two pictures, Nos. 8 and 9, to which the name of Velasquez is attached, their close likeness to larger...