Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ent of modern transformation, but was still medipeval, while England, France, andeven Germany were trying to shake off everything that bound them to their past, Leys wassaturated with the aspect of that earlier time almost without consciousness. The stained-glass,the tapestries, the illuminated missals of the churches and museums, were as familiar to himas the clothes he wore, but it was not until he became vividly interested—passionately inter-ested, we may say—in certain movements of that time that he suddenly found them picturedto his imagination in their very habit as they lived, and in his new-found subjects the menand women of the stained-glass and the tapestries and the missals once more walked the earth.The modern Flemish and Dutch painters have inherited from their forefathers the perceptionand the love of color. They are the only artists of modern Europe who can rightly claim theI name of colorists, and Leys was not only the chief colorist among the Belgians—he was not
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THE ARQUEBUSIER 3KLMAR HESS. PUBLISHER. NF,W YOUiC. 1 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 309 excelled as a colorist by any artist in Europe. He was not, however, a mannerist in his color.

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