Murillo
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers who want an initial understanding of Spanish painting and Murillo
- Learners who need English-language extensive reading material on art
- Art lovers looking for a lightweight introduction to a painter
- Readers interested in the style of early twentieth-century art writing
Not a good fit for
- Art historians who need rigorous scholarly verification and the latest research
- Readers who want high-resolution plates for comparison
- Readers who prefer Chinese and do not want to read the English original
Reading tips
- Read the life section first, then examine images of Murillo's representative works one by one.
- After each section, note in two or three sentences the work that impressed you most and why.
- Look up unfamiliar names and places as you go; there is no need to memorize them.
- Use it as an auxiliary guide to an album, alternating between text and images.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Samuel Levy Bensusan (1872–1958) was a British writer, art historian and chronicler of rural life, born in Deptford, London. He worked early on as a music and drama critic, and later contributed painter biographies to the "Masterpieces in Colour" series, covering artists such as Velázquez, Rubens and Murillo. In clear, concise prose he sketched each painter's life and artistic character, bringing Western painting to general readers. His interests also ranged to distant places and literary landmarks, yielding books on Morocco and on Shakespeare's homes and haunts. In later years he settled in Essex, where he devoted himself to writing about country life and dialect in a plain, gentle style. Twelve of his works are held in this collection, some classified under inspirational growth.
