The Vienna galleries - giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained (1912) (14760574986)

Identifier: viennagalleriesg00prey (find matches) Title: The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913 Subjects: Painting Publisher: Boston : St. Botolph Soc. Contributing Library: Boston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ze, display his art to perfection.The earliest of these paintings is dated 1559, whenthe artist was thirty-four years old, the latest datedpicture is of 1567, two years before his early deathin Brussels, at the age of forty-four. The work dated 1559 is called The Strugglebetween Carnival and Fasting (No. 716), andshows the Flemish masquerade of Shrove Tuesday.The principal figures are a well-rounded boniface,sitting astride a beer-barrel and holding a toasting-spit like a lance before him, and a doleful lookingperson sitting on a chair on rollers, which is beingpulled and pushed by monks and nuns. The on^slaught which the merry crew that pushes the beer-barrel will make on the order of the bread-shovelmay be imagined. There is an inexhaustible fundof humour in this picture, and as much in the arrayof Playing Children (No. 708), painted theyear following. This seems to contain a completecatalogue of all the joys of child-life — but thealmost confusing medley of details is so harmoni- Text Appearing After Image: ttbe jflemfsb anfc S>utcb paintings 95 ously brought together by the colour scheme thatthe most orderly arranged mosaic cannot be morerestful to the eye. The little panel called TheBird-thief (No. 718) is a jewel of execution.On a space of 23 x 28 inches a scene is portrayedin a landscape that seems to stre