Identifier: repositoryofarts518acke (find matches)
Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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to this so-ciety. RUBENSS TRIUMPH OF CHARITY. A VERY fine picture by Rubens, ;! ring of boy-angels. The colour-called The Triumph of Charity, is ; ing is excessively rich and bril-now exhibiting at the Gallery, \ liant, but the picture appears to have received considerable injury Leicester-square: it strongly ex-emplifies both the faults and thebrilliancy of this celebrated art-ists peculiar and magical style; itis in some parts coarse and care-less, in others full of divine and ir-resistible expression. The figureof Charity is represented in a tri-umphal car drawn by lions, and at-tended by a number of infantinefigures, allegoric emblems, and a in its journey to this country; andby a rare and most fortunate chance(for which it is difficult to account),it has escaped the still greater ra-vages of those experimentalists,the picture-cleaners, to whom someof the finest works in the Louvrewere indebted for that retouching,which in many instances oblitera-ted the original character of the
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p? -w- ff 5 V y-T-*^- ■■ PIC TOMAL C AMID) § W?29.ofRACKEgMZiairslL : ■ FOUR PLAYING-CARDS. 293 work. The creases in this picture, iwhich denote the injury it sustain-1etl, and in some places nearly makethe canvas visible, are still so littleobservable, that they do not inter-fere with the strong chiaro-scuroand brilliancy of effect that predo-minate in the picture: indeed thesepartial flaws contribute to developthe strong imagination which Ru-bens must have had, when he couldexecute so large a picture withoutrepainting. The expression inthe figures is strong and vividthroughout, except in one of theboys, whose contour of body isstiff and clumsy, and whose head is mean in the expression, and thecolouring is here tame. The ringof boys is beautiful in the extreme,and those in the chariot are beyondall praise. The most perfect re-presentation of beauty and inno-cence that can be conceived, is theboy who guides the car; the con-trast which his gentleness and de-licacy present to th

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