Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
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6. Of colours, how they are to be made to resemble nature.
C. The third part is of all that a man conceives as subject for painting. III. The Third Division of the book is the Conclusion; it also hath three parts. A. The first part shows in what place such an artist should dwell to practise his art; in six ways. B. The second part shows how such a wonderful artist should charge highly for his art, and that no money is too much for it, seeing that it is divine and true; in six ways. The third part speaks of praise and thanksgiving which he should render unto God for His grace, and which others should render on his behalf; in six ways. III It is in the variety and completeness of his intentions that we perceive Duerer's kinship with the Renascence; he comprehends the whole of life in his idea of art training. In his persuasion of the fundamental necessity of morality he is akin to the best of the Reformation. It is in the union of these two perceptions that his resemblance to Michael Angelo lies. There is a rigour, an austerity which emanates from their work, such as is not found in the |
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