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Rembrandt

CHAPTER II
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Now go to sleep.

You're too young to bother about such things." This child's mother was an ardent Ruskinian.

Observing that her husband, the citizen and golfer, was asleep in his chair when she returned from her son's bedroom, she stepped into the library, picked _Modern Painters_ from the shelf, and read the following passages, gravely shaking her head occasionally as she read.
"...

Rembrandt always chooses to represent the exact force with which the light on the most illumined part of an object is opposed to its obscurer portions.

In order to obtain this, in most cases, not very important truth, he sacrifices the light and colour of five-sixths of his picture; and the expression of every character of objects which depends on tenderness of shape or tint.


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