The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 276
ood under the Empire,after having witnessed the triumph ofpainters who reviled him as a corrupterof public morals, and lacked both hisimagination and his technical skill. By the middle of the eighteenth cen-tury the wearisome frivolity of Boucherand his numerous imitators had pro-voked a double… … riC. 493-—GRACE BEFORE MEAT.CHARDIN. (The Louvre.) tion. This is an error; it was inaugu-rated in the reign of Louis XV. Thefirst important discoveries among the 257 THE STORY OF ART THROUGHOUT THE AGES ruins of Pompeii and Hcrculaneumwere made in 1755, and excited a livelycuriosity as to antique…
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