Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · New York, Baker & Taylor · leaf 100
for, when theydid introduce it into their pictures, they representedit in a very lovely way. But always as a back-ground to the figures, which you are made to feelare the principal features of the picture. Thereason is that the public for whom they painted de-manded figure subjects. The Church… … it: »<; o U - ^ii T^« V. it*- The Classic Landscape Story; rich men and women wished to decorate theirpalaces with scenes from the old Greek legends;while cities adorned their public buildings withallegorical subjects in which the pride they took intheir own municipal life was set forth in…
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