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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XI
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The last is the orthodox mural painter of the world, but the other two will serve the present purpose also.

These architectural paintings if they were dramatized, still retaining their powerful lines, would be three exceedingly varied examples of what is meant by architecture-in-motion.

The visions that appear to Jeanne d'Arc might be delineated in the mood of some one of these three painters.

The styles will not mix in the same episode.
A painter from old time we mention here, not because he was orthodox, but because of his genius for the drawing of action, and because he covered tremendous wall-spaces with Venetian tone and color, is Tintoretto.

If there is a mistrust that the mural painting standard will tend to destroy the sense of action, Tintoretto will restore confidence in that regard.
As the Winged Victory represents flying in sculpture, so his work is the extreme example of action with the brush.


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