draughtsman-ship

Updated: May 21, 2025

Indeed, in certain little-known studies for Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Calumny of Apelles one may discover, in the strong sweep of the outline, in the solid fashion in which the figures are planted on their feet all peculiarities which disappear in the painted pictures, where grace of motion and exquisitive research take the place of solid draughtsman-ship the hand of the artist whom the restless desire to confront ever new problems alone prevented from attaining a place among the great men of his time.

Vernon Lee - Renaissance Fancies and Studies: Being a Sequel to Euphorion