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for it. But in spite of all piotests, the classic forms had lost ground more and more, until in clviii ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. the time of Louis XV., as we have said, they were completely swept away in the growing lovefor luxurious ease and freedom. The classic art had become a dead art; it… … VENGEANCE AND JUSTICE PURSUING CRIME. FROM THE PICTURE BY PRUDHON. could only be liy having new life infused into it. and In bringing it home to people by an-other road tlian tliat so long traveled by pedantry and pretension. Tliis was done in anunexpected way by tlie discoveries of Pompeii and…
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