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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 123

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e find in the statuesof the Greeks. . . . Whither do you carry me, gods and demigods and heroeswho live in marble ? I follow your call, and. Imagination ! thy eternal laws.I go into the Villa Medici and breathe there the purest air. I stretch myselfon a flowery plot, the shadow of the orange trees… … CARSTENS. SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS. how I love thee ! So dreamed Asmus Jacob in the wine-cellar at Eckern-forde, or in his solitary chamber by the dim light of his lamp, as he had beenseized with giddiness before all the great and marvellous revelations of artwhich this book had afforded him. In his…

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