DOI Heft:
No. 126 (September, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0315
Studio- Talk
Latour, embracing nearly
all of his poetic illustra
tions to Berlioz, Schumann
and Wagner. Surely
among painters, Fantin
and Klinger are foremost
in their keen feeling for
the charms of music.
H. W. S.
ROME.—The most
interesting feature
of the last Spring
exhibition was the
collection of paintings by
Domenico Morelli; forty-
five pictures, constituting
an organic whole, arranged
so as to show the artist's
progressive development
under the influence of
Celentano and Fortuny,
through many changes of
technique and a vast
variety of subjects —
patriotic, oriental and
religious.
To illustrate the work of
this lamented artist, of
whom the readers of
"sisters" from the painting by rieot The Studio already know
(See Glasgow Studio-Talk) something, we here give
reproductions of The
replace the late Mr. Preller, also held an exhibition 01 Love-stricken Page (see page 301), very pleasing
his work, the first time he has shown it since he in its simple treatment, dated 1870; and A
became one of us. In his earlier days he made a Woman of The Harem, 1877 (see page 302), in
name for himself by painting Oriental landscapes ; which we still find a careful rendering of texture
now he chooses his subjects nearer home, and in the draperies, though the painter's new aspira-
paints scenes from the various romantic woodland tions are very evident,
and hill countries in which Germany abounds. -.
- Since the death of Costa, the founder and soul
At Arnold's Galleries there was recently an exhi- of the Society " In Arte Libertas," there has
bition of some thirty to forty female portraits. It is not been the usual reservation of a room for
strangely different from what it would be if it had those artists who paint idea and form. This may
been held in Paris or London. There we would be because they have not exhibited, or perhaps
have seen more or less of an attempt at a show of they are content to mingle their works with those
" beautiful women." But here no attention what- of other Roman or international societies,
ever is paid to the question of the personal charms ---
of the sitters. The assemblage of pictures interests Besides the exhibition of Morelli's works we
solely from technical and artistic points of view. have had a collection of landscapes by Alessandro
Castelli (1809—1902), a painter famous in his day,
As a foil to this, one room is filled with a large and always interesting for the sincerity of his work,
number of the exquisite lithographs of Fantin- and for certain effects of light and storm. From
299
Latour, embracing nearly
all of his poetic illustra
tions to Berlioz, Schumann
and Wagner. Surely
among painters, Fantin
and Klinger are foremost
in their keen feeling for
the charms of music.
H. W. S.
ROME.—The most
interesting feature
of the last Spring
exhibition was the
collection of paintings by
Domenico Morelli; forty-
five pictures, constituting
an organic whole, arranged
so as to show the artist's
progressive development
under the influence of
Celentano and Fortuny,
through many changes of
technique and a vast
variety of subjects —
patriotic, oriental and
religious.
To illustrate the work of
this lamented artist, of
whom the readers of
"sisters" from the painting by rieot The Studio already know
(See Glasgow Studio-Talk) something, we here give
reproductions of The
replace the late Mr. Preller, also held an exhibition 01 Love-stricken Page (see page 301), very pleasing
his work, the first time he has shown it since he in its simple treatment, dated 1870; and A
became one of us. In his earlier days he made a Woman of The Harem, 1877 (see page 302), in
name for himself by painting Oriental landscapes ; which we still find a careful rendering of texture
now he chooses his subjects nearer home, and in the draperies, though the painter's new aspira-
paints scenes from the various romantic woodland tions are very evident,
and hill countries in which Germany abounds. -.
- Since the death of Costa, the founder and soul
At Arnold's Galleries there was recently an exhi- of the Society " In Arte Libertas," there has
bition of some thirty to forty female portraits. It is not been the usual reservation of a room for
strangely different from what it would be if it had those artists who paint idea and form. This may
been held in Paris or London. There we would be because they have not exhibited, or perhaps
have seen more or less of an attempt at a show of they are content to mingle their works with those
" beautiful women." But here no attention what- of other Roman or international societies,
ever is paid to the question of the personal charms ---
of the sitters. The assemblage of pictures interests Besides the exhibition of Morelli's works we
solely from technical and artistic points of view. have had a collection of landscapes by Alessandro
Castelli (1809—1902), a painter famous in his day,
As a foil to this, one room is filled with a large and always interesting for the sincerity of his work,
number of the exquisite lithographs of Fantin- and for certain effects of light and storm. From
299