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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 155

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reluctant that one should condemn the Middle Agesbecause they did not build such temples as the Greeks, any more than that oneshould condemn the Indians because they spoke their language and not our own. It is not only beneath Italian skies, under majestic domes and Corinthiancolumns, that true art… … OVERBECK. THE NAMING OF ST. JOHN. to be Wackenroderite. The ingenious and enthusiastic youth was succeededby theoretic reasoners. Tieck, who pubHshed his PJia)itcisics upon Art in1799, after Wackenroders death, and amphfied it with his own explanations,was no longer a genuine but a counterfeit…

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