The Grief of Or-pheus. To describe all these compositions would be fastidiousand useless. Let us rather select the allegory of the Sorbonne,so that the reader may complete the impression of our indigentprose by the vivid image of the engraved reproduction.* In * The original fresco forms a… … ALLEGORY OF THE SORBONNE.—I. EXTREME LEFT: HISTORY AFrom the painting by M. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. 32 ART AND CRITICISM. an Elysian landscape, whose smooth lawns are bounded by abelt of trees, the allegory is developed in the foreground, whichis divided into three compartments by the…
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