Scan 176
Joseph Guarnerius, his work and his master [Andreas Gisalberti], 1906
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1CHAPTER XI.
3JOSEPH'S EFFORTS AT IMPROVEMENT IN DESIGN—HIS IDEAL CAREFULLY SOUGHT AFTER—WORKING ON THE LINES OF SIMPLICITY—THE TUITION OF THE CREMONESE MASTERS—WERE ANY SELF-TAUGHT?—THE TEACHING OF GISALBERTI THROWN ASIDE BY JOSEPH—PECULIARITIES OF MODELLING INTRODUCED FROM TIME TO TIME—CHANGES IN VARNISH—INCREASE OF INTENSITY OF COLOUR—ALTERATION IN SYSTEM OF LININGS—INTERIOR FINISH OF DIFFERENT MAKERS—DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT OF JOSEPH AND STRADIVARI—EFFECTIVE APPEARANCE.
5NOTWITHSTANDING the changes in pattern and modelling made by Joseph up to the time on which our attention is centred, there will be perceptible, on careful comparison, one prevailing idea uppermost in the mind of the artist, that of the production of a design that would equal in gracefulness and fine proportions any masterpiece that had been sent out from establishments of the best standing in Cremona of that day, or any time before; to the attainment of this he devoted his most earnest efforts. That this was so there are all necessary hints thrown out in the works which have been engaging our attention up to the present.
7The ideal sought after was, in all likelihood, in a hazy or nebulous condition in his mind's eye, otherwise he would have at once brought it out before the admiring
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