Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 154
THE NAZARENES 119 painters because they had made painting the true handmaid of rehgion ;art was to him an object of devotion. Picture galleries, he says, oughtto be temples; he would liken the enjoyment of works of art to prayer; … OVERBECK. THI ANMNc lATION. let it be a lioly feast day to him if lie go with a serious and composedmind to their observance ; indeed, reverence for art and reverence for Godwere so closely interwoven that he was fain to kneel down beforeart, and offer it the homage of an eternal and boundless…
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