The art of the Prado : a survey of the contents of the gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them (1907)
Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931 · Boston : L.C. Page & company · leaf 238
beating the wind, lashingimaginary persons, but I have found amongintelligent art-lovers, and experts even, a tendencyto drop all interest in a masterpiece at the meresuggestion of some real or fancied inferiority orblemish in execution, just as we see an ape dropthe piece of paper he had prized… … RAPHAEL. THE HOLY FAMILY WITH THE LAMB Italian Scboois in tbe prabo 223 free from suspicion; above all, let us avoid anincreased suspicion before a work of art becauseit is too important to be genuine — I had almostsaid too good. This digression will bear directly upon LoSpasimo, and La Perla, and…
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