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Title: The art of painting in the nineteenth century
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927
Subjects: Painting -- History
Publisher: Boston and London, Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ight of everyartist to select subjects and expressions accord-ing to his own peculiar liking. Rarely, however, 144 THE ART 0F PAINTING have they regarded such freedom to be a license, as many of their Impressionistic neighbors have done. Modern Dutch art has made no great stir inthe world. It is quiet and appealing rather thandazzling and surprising. It is not brilliant, butit is exquisite. It is deservedly well liked bypeople of a contemplative turn of mind, and ispassed unnoticed by those who pay attentiononly to the execution and forget that executionshould not be the whole of the picture. The development of Dutch art is singular.Without much heralding Rembrandt made hisappearance, and with him the host of great men,Then there came a period of rest, and whileafter that all eyes were turned to France andpeople believed that only from France therecould come salvation, the Dutch quietly wentto work and created a new art as fine in its wayas anything that had ever been done in Holland.
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The Return of the Fishing Boats After the painting by Mesdag < . t I CHAPTER VI PAINTING IN RUSSIA, DENMARK, ANDSCANDINAVIA Russian Painting Russia has only slowly taken her place by theside of the nations of western Europe, for Asiatichalf culture held her in a firm embrace. Downto the tenth century of the Christian era survivalsof Greek art struggled with barbaric innovations,while Byzantine influences dominated the coun-try from the time when the Grand Duchess Olgaprofessed Christianity in 955 to the accession ofPeter the Great in 1682. Since then westernEurope has been the inspiration of Russian paint-ing, and it is only recently that a national spirithas shown vigorous signs of existence. Peter the Great, anxious to equal the splendorof the French court, summoned many foreignartists to Russia, but none of the truly great mencared to visit his land, so that the standard of art was set by inferior artists from France and Italy. MS 146 THE ART OF PAINTING That Italian art in the

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