The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 312
-ATHLETE AND PYTHON.LEIGHTON. The evolution of this style is still inits initial stage, and it is difficult todefine it. It is easier to say what it is not than what it is. Of all the styleshitherto known, it is the first whichhas conscientiously pursued novelty. … FIG. 575. ARTEMIS. HAMO THORNYCROFT. and has turned away resolutely fromthe beaten track. From this tendency,there is but a step to the exaggeratedand the grotesque; but we must notjudge by a few isolated extravagances.Inspired, as its English name sug-gests, by the teaching of Ruskin, whopreached…
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