Saint Anthony in Art; And Other Sketches - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... made sketches on the whitewashed walls of his tiny bedchamber. His father decided that if he was to follow his natural bent, he must be an artist, and accordingly placed Murillo under the tutelage of Juan del Castillo, his uncle. This great man had studied Art in the fair city by the Arno, and brought from the Florentine school chaste designing and cold, pure coloring. From him Murillo learned purity of conception and dignity of arrangement, and his own genius supplied later the warmth of coloring and glowing imagery which, with his fervid imagination and deep religious feeling, made him the greatest painter of medieval Spain. In personal appearance Murillo was very attractive, with long, floating dark hair crowning a high and noble forehead, eyes dark and deep, with the fire of genius burning within them, and a thoughtful, mobile, and kindly expression. There were in fair Seville, gleaming upon the Guadalquivir's banks like a topaz in a silver setting, three schools of painting. One was presided over by Castillo, one by Herrera, and the third by Pacheco, art critic of the Inquisition, and the teacher of Alonzo Cano and Velasquez. The pupils were taught grouping, coloring, and exactness by means of bodegones,--small pictures of game, fruit, and vegetables which were sold for signs to tavern-keepers in Andalusia, and many of these were wrought by Murillo's brush. Students posed for each other,--they were too poor to have models,--and the teachers held their classes in their own homes. When Castillo moved to Cadiz in 1640, Murillo, left without master or patron, poor, his parents dead, turned to the Feria for his support. The Feria was a weekly market held in the plaza in front of the church of All Saints, and it was visited by peasants, gypsies, monks, and...