全文听写，英式拼法
The civic militia guilds had a long standing tradition of commissioning group portraits to hang on the walls of their meeting places. The first such paintings were done in the early 1500s and the last ones not long after Rembrandt finished the Night Watch. A particular style developed and many of these large canvasses show the guardsmen lined up formally in serried ranks as one contemporary put it, as if they could all be decapitated with just one stroke of a sword.
The genre of group portraits of militia companies to which The Night Watch belongs is a very awkward one in some ways because the painter had a big problem because militia companies were quite large and they paid individually for their portraits and so you might have to include 30 men. It's a bit like organising a group photograph today and everyone knows that the results tend to be rather stiff and formal and unnatural.
发表于 2016-8-2 13:37:11
