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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 338

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re-shortened position. The figure is uncomfortably placed,and the position of the neck, the thighs and the legs,and even the head, is distinctly awkward. As has beennoted it is characteristic of the painter of Parma fre-quently to show this disregard of the beauty of line. Noone is greater than he… … JUPITER AND ANTIOPEBy Correggio Salon Carre 257 as of colour, light and shade, seems not always to impresshim. It is safe to assert that amidst all the treasures thatline the wall of the Salon Carre not one is more com-pelling, more striking than this. As one enters the roomit is as if the whole…

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