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...Velasquez." Professor Post, New Fogg Museum, small room...
...little pictures of the White Church of Arequipa, Peru, and the Churches of Cuautla in Mexico are fresh and charming, and the Canal View done in Venice recalls Corot's sketches of Rome. The Boy Reading and the Musicians suggest the full chi, aroscuro method of Velasquez. There is an interesting and spirited copy of the Olivarez of Velasquez. To emphasize Dr. Ross' relation to the great masters is certainly not to deny his originality but rather to praise his achievements which are rooted in a study of the best precedents of the past...
...Never was faith better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...
Besides anecdotes, the book has sketches of such folk-quirky pen-and-inks that bring home to you what a man Orpen is for line as well as for clean modeling and Velasquez-like depths of air. Also among the 34 plates are some very fair reproductions of oils unfamiliar to most U. S. enthusiasts-the leer-eyed Gypsies on the Hill of Howth; two allegories that only a slant-headed little faun from the hills could have painted-Sewing New Seed and A Western Wedding...
...that first success to the moment of his lamentable assassination by the syndicate's reporter. He ran his eye through wads of anecdote apotheosizing his commendable arrogance, his cosmopolitanism, his indifference to money; he scanned columns of doting verbiage in which criticasters acclaimed him as "The Modern Velasquez," "The Modern Van Dyck," mourned him as a mortal but set him among the gods, his head on Abraham's bosom, his feet in Titian's lap. He smiled...