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Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)

Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 279

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-Jones, but we must at least add Rossetti to eke out the com-parison. We do not feel satisfied even then. We needsomething also that is akin to the spirit of William Blake,an intense imaginative realisation of life other than thatwhich is revealed by the senses. We may liken him to acomposite… … LA CHIMERE GUSTAVE MOREAU PAINTING IN FRANCE 219 gloomy forests and brilliantly hued flowers. The animalsthat inhabit it are such as we read of in ancient lore, andthe people in it are human, yet strangely different fromthe humanity we know, and dwell in halls of fabulousmagnificence. It is as if…

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