"Murillo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I have read of Murillo, he is emphatically styled an honest man: this is all I can remember of his character; and truth and nature prevail through all his pictures. In his Virgins, we can trace nothing elevated, poetical or heavenly: they have not the ideality ...
— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson
... in Philadelphia an Academy of Fine Arts, or Gallery, of which my father had generously presented me with two shares, which gave me free entrance. There were in it many really excellent pictures, even a first- class Murillo, besides Wests and Allstons. Unto this I had, as was my wont, read up closely, and reflected much on what I read, so that I was to a certain degree prepared for the marvels of art which burst on me in Naples. And if I was, and always have been, rather ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... day at the easel of a young man who is copying a Murillo Madonna. Intent upon his work, the artist politely answers, and resumes his task. Spirited and artistic in execution, the copy betokens a ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage |
