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The art of painting in the nineteenth century (1908)

Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927 · Boston, London, Ginn and Co. · leaf 192

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ing motive, they give to pic-tures an air of artificiality. The charge which isjustly made against most Italian genre paintersis that they have laid too much emphasis on theirartistic intentions, disregarding the worth of theirsubjects and choosing costumes, poses, and actionswhich, because they… … c ITALIAN PAINTING 127 which, real or unreal, has the power of creatingan actual sense of physical pleasure. For manyyears, therefore, these pictures have had a goodmarket. But this in turn has reacted on theirquality, for most of them, doubtless, were paintedwith no higher motive than that of…

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