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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 324

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d his famous peers, more adequate.There is an impressive loveliness about the gentle god andthe Muses grouped about him. The Muse who sits near by,white-robed and exquisite, is a creation worthy of Raphaelsrefinement and taste, but is only a feeble reminiscence of themighty strain of poetry that… … 3o6 Mornings with Masters of Art or the Pean to which the hopUtes charged at Marathon.There is sterner stuff in the worlds music, in the worlds art,than anything these creatures can represent. It is art inlighter vein that these Muses suggest. It is, let us concedewithout harshness, art in lighter…

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