Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Peter Paul Rubens
But it is through his temperament that the artist works; and since temperament is an influence in moral decisions, there may be a sort of second cousinship twice removed between paint and morals. Temperament works upon the landscape painter as effectively as upon the figure man; it can turn him to large forms, to savage colour, or to peddling minuteness of pattern, and glassy smoothness of pigment just as it turns a figure painter to broad ?eshy types, or to sharp bony models that show their anatomical structure.
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