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The bases of design (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 208

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Holland and mark howclosely associated with local conditions of life andclimate are their forms of art, more especially asillustrated in the art of their past days—thepictures of rich Flemish burgher life of the MiddleAges, the knights and ladies with a certain stern-ness and stiffness of… … SPAIN. PORTION OF THE ALHAMP.RA, DRAWN BY GUSTAVE DORE. THE CLIMATIC INFLUKNCK Germany would tell a similar tale in her arts,though with a more dominant military and religiousnote, more fantasy and more melancholy, and witha wild grotesque element corresponding with hermore varied conditions of…

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