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poetry in art—Ideas suitable for different
arts—Confusion of mediums of
expression—Pictorial poetry not literary
poetry—Painting deals with forms and colors, not
sound—Millet’s “Angelus”—The division of the
arts—The time limit in painting—The picture
cannot disclose time—What is pictorial
poetry—Literary and pictorial themes—Writers who
paint with words—Spenser, Shakespeare, Scott,
Matthew Arnold—Limits of pictorial
expression—“Feeling” in art—Sentiment and
emotion, how suggested—Feeling in literary
poetry and in music—Also in painting—Religious
feeling of early Italians—Fra Angelico,
(Benozzo) Gozzoli, Botticelli—Sincerity of
Carpaccio and Bellini—Feeling for life, light,
and color with Giorgione and Correggio—The
pathos of Rembrandt—And of Millet—The peasants
of France and Holland—Their beauty of
character—The poetry of landscapes, of sea
views, of interiors—Indefiniteness of the
pictorial thought—The picture not a good vehicle
for abstract ideas—But well fitted for emotional
expression—Poetry in the means of expression