Collection Cottier: Catalogue (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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As an artist, in furniture as in glass, he was not a whit less personal and abounding than as a dealer in pictures and an in fluence in taste. First and last, his aims were one and the same. As was to be expected of a man whose passion was the art of the great Venetians, be cherished two ambitions: to be nothing if not decorative in design, to be nothing if not sumptuous in effect. In the beginning - as may be seen from his window in Paisley Abbey: where you may study examples of all his several periods his drawing was merely inexact and strained, his colour - ih the which, be it remembered, he tended towards the use of the very strongest combinations - was mainly forced and crude. But with years the technical quality of his work improved, his vision grew clear, his sense of style was chastened, his temperament came to the mellowness of maturity; and he achieved such results in stained glass as no other master of the century has - not surpassed but even - approached. It is not insinuated here that these were all the work of his own hand. It is stated once for all, however.

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