Five Great Painters Of The Victorian Er

My lady the prologue. The queen and the R.B.A.- Frederic, lord Leighton; the painter of the gods.- Sir John Millais: the painter of men and women.- Sir Edward Burne-Jones: the painter of the golden age.- George Frederick Watts: the painter of love and life.- William Holman Hunt: the painter of the Christ.- My lord the epilogue. Art, and the national life.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...has been made is lost. Thus we see the rotation of luminous forms throughout the series--the trees which perish not, because they are of God's planting--the living creatures in their natural order--until, by the sixth day, the ever-accumulating splendours express the complete work of the Creator. The fourth day brings in the sun and moon. On the fifth we see a flight of sea-birds, and at the angels' feet is the sea-shore, strewn with shells. On the sixth day man and woman stand in the midst. Thus the heavens and the earth were created; and now, see how the painter--is he not himself one of the ministers of God?--has imagined the angels. In the first panel there is one, bearing the globe; in the second there are two; in the third three; their beautiful faces seen beyond the angel of the day. For not only shall God's work endure, but His servants who do His pleasure shall endure also, and shall rejoice together with Him when the day comes. This ever-increasing interest as the design goes on, is as finely wrought out in composition as it is finely conceived. The effect is wonderful. The unity of the single figure makes it complete, we desire nothing more. The complexity of the fourth, and fifth, and sixth, does not take from the unity--any more than the many stars take from the unity of the sky. And lo! on the sixth day--what is this? The six angels are standing; but there is a seventh. The seventh angel, or perhaps the Archangel--for there is a hierarchy in heaven of which I know not the order or rank--the seventh angel is seated. The work is done. It only remains for God to pronounce it very good--and to rest. Now all this wealth of thought and imagination is lavished by Burne-Jones on the six lights of a window of an English church, to be...

Excerpt from Five Great Painters, of the Victorian Era, Leighton, Millais, Burne-Jones, Watts, Holman Hunt It seems fitting then that a few words Should be said by way of preface about the Society itself. For, if Leighton, and Millais, and burne-jones, and Watts, and Holman Hunt are representatives of the Victorian age, so also is the Royal Society of British Artists. If t/zey are the flower of Art, it is the field Where such flowers grow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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