e is nothingrestless or tormented here. This work is theexpression of the greatest antique inspiration ;it is voluptuousness regulated by restraint; itis the joy of life cadenced, moderated byreason. Such masterpieces affect me strangely.They bring vividly before my mind theatmosphere and the… … 57. THE VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE. AT THE LOUVRE pure and majestic, whose marble had the warmtransparency of flesh. I imagine the philo-sophers walking in the outskirts of the town,conversing upon beauty, close to some old altarwhich recalls to them the earthly adventure ofsome god. The birds sing…
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