Painting popularly explained; including fresco, water-glass, oil, tempera, mosais, encaustic, water-colour, miniature, painting on ivory, vellum, ... sketches of the progress of the art - Softcover
Synopsis
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. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...for further particulars of which we refer the reader to our article on the process. Mr. Dyce is advancing, though very tardily, with, as they will doubtless be deemed, his very remarkable frescoes relating to the legend of King Arthur. In the Peers' Robing Room or Chamber of Appeal, Mr. Herbert was, at the date of our going to press, on the point of finishing his great picture, in stereochrome, of ' Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law to the Israelites,' which will, we believe, be considered one of the most elevated and original works of modern art. Of this, with Mr. Maclise's gigantic works, also in stereo-chrome, in the Royal Gallery, we shall speak in our description of the water-glass process. An opinion seems to prevail among architectural purists that some of the works already executed are unsuitable in character, because they have no relation whatever to the architectural features of the place. Mr. Watts has decorated one end of the beautiful hall of Lincoln's Inn with a large fresco entitled, ' The School of Legislature'--an ideal representation of the great lawgivers of the world. In All Saints, Margaret Street, the east wall of the choir is painted by Mr. Dyce, with frescoes in the style of early Christian art. Besides these, we may mention the following important mural decorations:--the' Illustrations of Northumbrian History,' painted (in an oil medium, thougi without gloss) by Mr. W. B. Scott, in Sir Walter Trevelyn's mansion at Wallingtou; the roof-paintings of Ely Cathecral, left unfinished by the death of Mr. L'Estrange, and tc be completed by Mr. Gambier Parry; Mr. Armi-tage's frescoes in the Roman Catholic Church of St. John's, Islington; oil paintings by Mr. Watts in Little Holland House; Mr. Rossetti's Altar-piece, at...
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