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The art of the Louvre, containing a brief history of the palace and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists (1905)

Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L.C. Page & company · leaf 22

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t is its massiveness that strikes one mostforcibly and at once. There is a certain austerity in thevery grayness of the stone with which it is built. Ingeneral it may be called three stories high. But ineffect it is much more than that. For, besides the greatelevation of each story, the walls are… … birds-eye view of the louvre and its surroundings •fcistors of tbe %ow>re 3 With the exception of certain foundations, no part ofthe Louvre is older than the time of Frangois I., andmost of it belongs to much later days. Though in itspresent state it is thus of such comparatively recenterection,…

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