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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 108

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HISTORICAL POSITION OF ART ON THE CONTINENT ^^ were the most independent performances which the eighteenth century-had brought forth there. There worked in Rome the Netherlander,Vanvitelli, who depicted in graceful water-colours Roman and Neapolitan … street life ; and Giovanni Paolo Pannini, the pcintrc des fetes publiques,in whose pictures groups of richly coloured figures moved through splendidpalaces. Venice was the home of the Canaletti. In Antonio Canalcstown pictures of Venice, Rome, and London there is at once so subtlean atmospheric…

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