Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 28g toward the east, and the establishment of the famous Zoological Gardens—the richest of thesort in Europe—together with the imiDrovement of the docks and wharves in that part of thetown, the Jews Quarter no longer has the picturesque and tumbledown irregularity shownin our picture. This is owing to the fact that the stream of travel between the Dam, thecentral part of the old city and the main seat of traffic, and the new, fashionable district inthe east, passes directly through the Jews Quarter, and the natural tendency has been to
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THE JEWS QUARTER IN AMSTERDAM.FROM THE PICTURE BY ANDREAS ACHENBACH. break up the old, free-and-easy, careless way of living, so long indulged in by the inhabitants. To find such a tumble-down state of things as is here represented, one must now go a long way out of the city, and it is a chance if he come anywhere upon so picturesque a spot. For, to tell truth, there is very little of the picturesque left in Holland, and though Amsterdam, thanks to the way in which her streets are laid out, and to her canals and bridges, and gabled houses, is a handsome city, she has none of the charm that comes from decay and ruin.Vol. II.—19 * * ago ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. What is going ou all over Europe; in Venice, in Eome, in Naples, in Florence, in Paris,in London, is going on in Holland as well. These municipalities are bound to make them-selves comfortable, clean, airy, and healthy, if possible, and they are going about the workwith small consideration for the mutterings or shrieks of s

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