Excerpt from The Galleries of Vienna: A Selection of Engravings After the Most Celebrated Pictures in the Imperial Gallery of the Belvedere, and From Other Renowned Collections in Vienna; With Descriptive TextThe Italian painters who took nature as their guide, the pupils and followers of the great Michel Angelo da Caravaggio, possessed, with few exceptions, the important secret of imbuing their works with a close adherence to natural objects rarely found in the pictures of those masters who painted only from the ideal. They portray nature as it is; they make no pretensions to any fixed idea of grace, of grandeur, or of refined sentiment, but they seem to have produced them without effort - intuitively at the same time it must be admitted that these masters invariably chose the most favourable and attractive moment, that they well knew how to charm the senses of the beholder, and to spirit him away into the world of their perceptions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.