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The conception of art (1913)

Poore, Henry Rankin, 1859-1940 · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 128

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l and not universal, not divine — it ispurely human. Their faces are ideal faces oftheir countrymen or of women they love. AnItalian madonna is an idealized Italian, andappeals to the imagination of the Italian only,as an ideal of divine maternity. Dutch ma-donnas are all Dutch women and cannot… … The Jester — Franz Hals- Cow Girl — Dagnan-Bonverrt

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