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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IMITATION. A Madame Schultz some years ago made a very interesting exhihition of her imitative powers, which she exercised in representing not only the statues, the cameos, the bas-reliefs, and the frescoes of antiquity, but also the most celebrated of modern paintings. A French critic writes thus of her performances. This lady is of a lofty figure. Poetically speaking, she is no longer in the spring of her age; with her, summer has began to advance. A few of her gestures betray the somewhat trivial taste of Flanders, or Germany; but if one may be permitted to criticise her in this respect, when she walks, adj usts, or prepares her pictures, it is impossible not to applaud the picturesque dignity of her attitudes, when she has once taken her position. The pictures which she composes are so animated, that it would require much more space to give a detailed explanation of them. I shall content myself to a summary mention. The first represented to us is a Roman lady, surrounded by her women, and taking all the pains imaginable to array herself in the richest and most seductive manner. In the second, (for the action of the three first pictures is connected) this lady is supposed to have witnessed the martyrdom of several Christians. The transaction has affected her deeply; she divests herself of her rich robes; she renounces the vanity of the world; and after having dressed herself in the simple robe of a slave, she leaves the place to finish her days in an austere solitude. In the third picture, this lady is seen retired to the bottom of a deep forest, and preparing, by a thousand privations, for death. She often takes the attitudes which Coreggio and several other painters have given in their chef d'asuvre to the Magdalen; and the female spectators were no...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217363938
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217363938
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 172 gr


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