The Sunset Trail Omnibus (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... MODERN SPANISH AND MODERN ITALIAN PAINTING CHAPTER I MODERN SPANISH PAINTING The Modern Revival of the Ancient Spanish Ideal.--That Ideal Defined.--A Glance at Fortuny and "The Little Painters" as Differing From the Elder Spanish.--Zuloaga, as Renewing the Racial Type.--Sorolla, the Cosmopolitan, The Painter of Light.--Immediate Followers of Zuloaga: Iturrino, Losada and Others.--Other Examples of the Racial: Anglada, Rusinol, Martinez, Chicharro, the Brothers du Zubiaurre, Benedito, Nieto, Mesquita.--Landscape-work: Morera, Meifren, de Beruete, Rauricha.--Other Notable Men. rfHERE is an epoch of revival in the history of Spanish painting which begins, roughly speaking, in the later years of the nineteenth century, or, to be exact, in the late eighties and the nineties of that century, the time in which those two moderns, Sorolla and Zuloaga, began to be known to the world. That we name this "the era of revival" is due, not to the greatness of these men as the painters of such and such pictures, nor to the success of other painters, their contemporaries. What is sprung up anew is not merely a line of gifted artists, but the old Spanish tradition, the tradition which has been lost since the death of Francesco Goya and which lives anew for Spain in the work of our modern painters and their following, though by no means in all its ancient splendor. What that tradition is--its signal qualities and import--we wish to define in these pages, as also the difference between the work of Sorolla and Zuloaga in the present and very marked revival. It is, indeed, the ideal of modern Spanish painting, in its resemblance to the elder ideal, which makes the first subject of our chapter--and the work of each painter, as we hope to point it out, will serve to illustrate th...