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The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)

Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 269

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ne works, but fine in a coldand pompous style. The best of the 249 THE STORY OF ART THROUGHOUT THE AGES portrait-painters of this period wasLargilliere; his masterpiece, a familygroup of himself, his wife and hisdaughter, is in the Salle Lacaze, in theLouvre (Fig. 481). It is a charmingwork, but… … FIG. 484.—MILO OF CHOTONA.PUGET. (The Lou^Tc.) epistle by the great poet is very in-structive ; it shows us what criticismdemanded of art in the seventeenth cen-tury. ■ According to Moliere, it shouldbe:—. Assaisonn^ du sel de nos graces antiques,Et non du fade goflt des orncments gothiquos,Ccs…

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