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 52
eaddition has, as has often been noted, an appearance oftheatrical decoration without accent or depth, a luxurywithout reason, a lack of harmony, and a manifest dis-proportion between the framework and the ornamentation.The six enormous pavilions add to this ruination of pro-portion and measure.… … t>tstot£ of tbe %o\xvtc 25 every conceivable spot on the fagades of these new build-ings are caryatides, colossal statues (among them eighty-six of eminent Frenchmen), and unlimited groups ofsculpture, of which sixty-three are of allegorical char-acter. Most of these are far from the highest art…
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