Then painters work at their easels in its streets, while their mesdames, who have followed them forth with camp-chairs, sew and chatter in the nearest shade.
Indeed, it is among the dessinateurs (who are often painters likewise) that the spirit of revolt all along the line is the most pronounced.
It's half-past twelve,' volunteered a young man who detached himself from a band of painters who were returning with their pictures because they had arrived at the Louvre too late.
Good poets (as Senhor Lactancio said) do not do more with words than even mediocre painters do with their works, for the former recount what the latter express and declare.
And what is singular is, that doing nothing more than this work, which as yet he has not completed, and having commenced it when a youth, there is therein comprised the work of twenty painters united in that vault alone.
Those who examined the forms I have described, painters who inspected and compared them with works hardly less divine, affirm that never in the history of human achievement was any product of man’s brain seen like to them in mere supremacy.
When we examine the works of the painters we see that there are many differences in the way of seeing.
However intense the light of day may be, it is therefore always colored, and gives those colored shadows which painters do not always observe.
He was born at the best period of the Renaissance, he was the inheritor of the freedom for which other painters had striven.
The following lists make no claim to absolute completeness, but no genuine work by the painters mentioned, found in the better known public or private collections, has been omitted.
Nevertheless, his few remaining works lead us to suspect in him the greatest artist, and the most influential personality among the painters of the first generation after Masaccio.
Adam, our first father, was by tradition created with a beard: Zeus Allfather is bearded, and the old painters and carvers who hardily pictured the first person of the Trinity gave Him the long beard of his fatherhood.
But her real art training was obtained in Paris, where she started in the atelier Julian and had the coaching of painters like Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau and Dagnan Bouveret.
Meanwhile, Iranistan which had been closed and unoccupied for more than two years, was once more opened to the carpenters and painters whom Mr. Johnson sent there to put the house in order.
In Paris, as in London, several eminent painters expressed their desire to paint his portrait, but the General’s engagements were so pressing that he found little time to sit to artists.
The painters had been at work there, as you said, two days before, and the paint on the slats was not quite dry.
The painters were hopelessly mediocre; their art was snatched from them by the sculptors.
Pollaiolo and Verrocchio we know to have been equally excellent as painters and as workers in bronze.
The tragic sense, the sense of utter blank evil, is stronger in all these Elizabethan painters of Italian crime than perhaps in any other tragic writers.
To find the tragic we must wait for the Bolognese paintersof the seventeenth century, for Metastasio and Alfieri in the eighteenth; it is useless seeking it in this serene and joyous Renaissance.
Delaroche and the painters who surrounded him can be appropriately described as constituting the back-wash of the Empire style, which had reached its climax with David.
In these straits he turned to portrait-painting, just as many great painters before and since him have done.
To paint human life as it really was, was too vulgar for any of the painters of this time.
He never bursts forth into any of those pyrotechnics which distinguished many of his contemporaries and some of the painters of our own days.
The band of critics and painters formed a monopoly which it seemed almost impossible to break down, and it was only after years of bitter and determined struggle that the school of nature finally routed its opponent.
Byzantine artists went to Kiev, and Kiev sent Russian painters to the West.
Its use is attributable to the fact that early sign-painters often represented it issuing out of a cloud to perform some action or support some object.
In order to comprehend such subjects, it would often be necessary to preserve the practice of painters of old, and write the speech of each personage in a ribbon proceeding out of the mouth.
The poet was called upon for a toast, and by way of a joke on the great professor of the "sister art" gave, "The Painters and Glaziers.
Every thoughtful person must often have realized how close is the natural sympathy between artists in literature and artists of the pencil and brush; between painters and poets.
In 1695, when this town was bombarded by the French, fourteen churches were destroyed, some of which contained the best pictures of Rubens, Vandyke, and other great painters of that century.
Poor nature is much to be pitied among painters and poets.
It is thus that Poets and Painters at once obey and control their own inspirations.
Not long after this talk, thepainters brought him news that he was accepted to member of the company and the day being come before the night appointed for their assembly, he had them both to dinner.
Amongst others on whom it occurred to him more particularly to cast his eyes were two painters of whom it hath already twice to-day been discoursed, namely, Bruno and Buffalmacco, who were neighbours of his and still went in company.
Nevertheless, since he was e'en there, he enforced himself to take heart, so overcome was he with desire to see the marvels whereof the painters had told him.
Presently, supper-time being come, the painters left work and went down into the courtyard, where they found Filippo and Niccolosa and tarried there awhile, to oblige Calandrino.
Now come the celebrated "Stanzi" of Raphael, which are considered by painters and connoisseurs in art as the most costly and beautiful, not only in Rome, but in the whole world.
And I am here speaking of painters and sculptors only; poets and musicians ought also to have been invited to immortalize the deeds of the German people.
In this manner the attention of the painters here has been attracted for the last year and more by the extraordinary artistic talent of a lad in the streets.
All English painters resemble Hogarth in this respect.
Nevertheless, I should suppose that certain painters are better represented here than they ever have been or will be elsewhere.
It is a hopeful symptom, moreover, of improving taste, that I see more merit in the crowd of painters than I was at first competent to acknowledge.
These painters accomplish all they aim at,--a praise, methinks, which can be given to no other men since the world began.
There are several of Mary of Scotland, none of which have a gleam of beauty; but the stiff old brushes of these painters could not catch the beautiful.
The most disagreeable of English painters is Etty, who had a diseased appetite for woman's flesh, and spent his whole life, apparently, in painting them with enormously developed busts.
The movement is a direct offshoot of the first Impressionism, originated by a group of young painters who admired it and thought of pushing further still its chromatic principles.
Louis Legrand also shows to what extent the example of Manet and Degas has revolutionised the art of illustration, in freeing the painters from obsolete laws, and guiding them towards truth and frank psychological study.
Degas's influence has, however, been considerable, though secretly so, and the young painters have been slowly inspired by his example.
If Leonardo was a great painter, are Turner and Monet not painters at all?
It caused the young painters to turn resolutely towards the aspects of contemporary life, and to draw style and emotion from their own epoch; and this intention was right.
It is in this most recent part of his evolution, that Renoir appears the most capricious and the most poetical of all the painters of his generation.
Some years have been wasted by painters of little worth in imitating it, and the Salons, formerly encumbered with academic pastiches, have been encumbered with Impressionist pastiches.
In whatever measure the recent painters accept Impressionism, they remain preoccupied with it, and even those who love it not are forced to take it into account.
It was necessary at the moment of its arrival, but it is no longer necessary now, and the painters understand this themselves.
Monet is the equal of the greatest landscape painters as regards the comprehension of the true character of every soil he has studied, which is the supreme quality of his art.
Outside this group there are still a few isolated painters who are difficult to classify.
This explains why the old German painters gave the heads of their subjects a greater uniformity of type than the painters of our day; the race had not attained to a high degree of individualization in features and expression.
But while letter after letter written to friends at home refers to such painters or sculptors as Story, Powers, and Leighton, there is absolute silence concerning Rossini.
His interest in personality turns his mind to the painters themselves, his fancy runs with a loose rein--and we have the half-thoughtful whimsicality of Old Pictures in Florence.
Eleven poems in all deal with Italian painters or painting as the principal theme.
Baldinucci’s histories of the Italian painters furnish material for Beatrice Signorini, and the first part of Filippo Baldinucci.
Twenty-nine poems contain the names of Italian painters, and fifty-one Italian painters are mentioned by name; while several of the great artists are mentioned in many poems.
There “he became familiar with the names of the great painters and learned something about their works.
Many references to painters or painting are used for comparisons, just as in the case of other arts.
Manet, like the other painters of his group, was influenced by these newly-discovered works of art.
Moreover, it is doubtful whether many paintershave followed the laws of mixture of lights in their dotting, e.
On each of these facets the character of the object and of the illumination, with accidents of reflection, produces a patch called by modern painters a "value," because it is colour of a particular value or tone.
The theory opened the way for endless casuistries, and its extravagances died out in the later exhibition of the Independants or were domesticated in the Salon bypainters like M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "painters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
