History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 446
e decorativeworks in the palace have survived. A very charming painting by Costa does,however, form part of the little that remains of the art of Mantua at thatperiod ; this is known as the Court of the Muses, in the Louvre (Fig. 308).It was intended to represent and flatter the artistic and… … music. A spirit of serene felicity pervades the scene, and the allegory issubordinate to the intense vitality which animate-; the figures ami groups, Inthis work we feel the presence; of a perfectly new element of style ; the influenceof Mantegna survives only in the composition ami classical…
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