The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 274
peo-ple to have summed up all its tastes.But this is a mistaken notion. The cen-tury that rapturously applauded Vol-taires dreary tragedies, that wasroused to enthusiasm by the Esprit desLois and Emile, was far from being afrivolous age, although it was given tofrivolity, as to other amenities of… … FIG. 488.—WINTER.LANCRET. (The Louvre.)(Photo by Neurdein.) and Romans. But side by side withthis classical current, which was neverinterrupted, and overflowed towardsthe end of Louis XV.s reign, there wasanother, that had its rise in a reactionof the French spirit against the tyran-nical supremacy…
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