American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 299
beauty, oras ruins, invested with the poetry of decay — are introduced to add emphasis to the classicalcharacter of the landscape itself All this was thought to be necessary to an artistic concep-tion of Nature, which, to borrow the words of a late German writer, does not allow itself tobe swayed… … I cite these particulars, not, at present,for the purpose of basing upon them anopinion as to the merits or demerits ofthis school of landscape painting, butsimply to enforce the contrast which ex-ists between it and the most prominentphase of modern art, as developed fromthe germs first planted by…
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