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Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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New York ; the restoration of the original piece to its right place has caused much repainting. Murillo passed from his early realistic or cold style to his second or warm style, remarkable for his increase of colour, though at the loss of realism. He now entered upon his famous third style called El Vaporoso, roughly speaking in his fortieth year, 1657. This third style is frankly founded on the imagination, and sheds the Spanish Realism. It is the most personal and characteristic stage of Murillos art, and is marked by great freedom of handling, combined as are these qualities with an enriched colour-sense. The series of the four canvases of The Legend of Our Lady of the Snow, painted for the Canon Don Justino Neve, to decorate the Church of Santa Maria la Blanca, begin Murillos third phase; they were amongst the vast loot carried away by the French, but two are back in Seville, at 218 XXI MURILLO1617- 1682 SENTIMENTALIST SCHOOL OF SEVILLE OR ANDALUSIA THE SPANISH FLOWER GIRL (Dulwich Gallery)
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OF PAINTING the Academy of Fine Arts—The Dream and The Fulfilment. IN WHICH France kept the Immaculate Conception and Faith. THE Of this vaporous phase of Murillos art are his two GREATcycles ; after 1670 came the series for La Caridad, and SPANISHfrom 1674 to 1680 he gave forth the series for the ACHIEVE-Capuchin Convent. OT THE The cycle for La Caridad held eight works, of which ctvtffnthree, the Moses striking the Rock, the Miracle of the Loaves HUNDREDSand Fishes, and the Charity of San Juan de Dios, are still in DIES OFtheir designed place. Soult carried off the other five, of A FALLwhich the Duke of Sutherland now has the Abraham FROM AReceiving the Angels and The Return of the Prodigal; whilst SCAFFOLDanother, The Healing of the Paralytic^ is also in England inthe possession of Mr. Tomline. St. Petersburg possesses the Release of St. Peter from Prison ; whilst the Prado holds the best of the sequence in the St. Elizabeth washing the Head of a Leprous Child. Of the cycle for the C

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