Description - Picture Study in Elementary Schools Volume 1 by Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...two. When he returned home, he received his friends, eating with them the Abendbrod. It is true that he received much assistance from his pupils, but nevertheless the work that he did with his own hand was enormous. The story goes that on one occasion he was to paint a picture for the Cathedral of Mechlin. Rubens made a sketch and sent a pupil to make the beginning. The priest who ordered the picture waited at first patiently and then impatiently for the master to come. Finally, he wrote a furious letter to Rubens. He assured the priest that he was only doing as he always did. " After making the sketch, I leave my pupil to begin the picture and to work it out according to my principles, then I retouch it and set my seal upon it. I shall come to Mechlin in a few days; your discontent will then cease." And he told the truth. When the priest saw his final touches on the picture, he was perfectly satisfied. Another favorite story about Rubens is this: An Englishman, once a painter but then an alchemist, asked Rubens to help him fit out a laboratory for the transmutation of metals. He promised in return to divide with him half the profits. " You have come twenty years too late," said Rubens. Then pointing to his palette and brushes, he added, " Everything I touch with these turns to gold." Wherever Rubens went, France, England, Spain, he was the favorite with king, courtiers, and the people, for he was gay, witty, well educated (he spoke well a half-dozen languages), and genial. His last act was a kindly note to a pupil, "On May day you have planted your may," a jesting congratulation on his May-day marriage. All Antwerp mourned his death. Method.--Show the children such pictures by Rubens as his family scenes; himself and his wife; his wife...
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