Great Artists, Vol 1. - Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer

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Title: Great Artists, Vol 1.
Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer
Author: Jennie Ellis Keysor
Release Date: September 10, 2007 [EBook #22564]
Language: English
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“Art manifests whatever is most exalted,
and it manifests it to all.”—Taine
GREAT ARTISTS
RAPHAEL RUBENS
MURILLO DURER
BY
JENNIE ELLIS KEYSOR
Author of “Sketches of American Authors”
EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
BOSTON
New York Chicago San Francisco
COPYRIGHTED
BY EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1899.A WORD TO THE TEACHER.
The following brief sketches are presented in fear and in hope—in fear lest they prove in no wise
adequate for so glorious a subject; in the hope that they may encourage not only the pupil, but the
teacher, to study the lives and the works of the great artists and to make every possible effort to have
copies of masterpieces ever before them to study and to love.
The field of art study is a wonderful one from which to draw for language work. A double purpose is
thus served. Interesting subjects ...