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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 186

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case of a self-trained and quite un-tutored school. A man of this kind, who had nothing to teach that was worth the learning,and who excelled only in intellectual qualities which could not be impartedto others, must needs prove the most dangerous academy-principal Germanyhas had since she first… … THE ART OF MUNICH UNDER KING LUDWIG I 151 one believe that, Dante-like, he had looked upon heaven and hell. As thereare men born to command an army, so Cornelius was born to be the headof a school of painting, said King Ludwig. We can scarcely help smilingat Schwinds account ofthe trembling awe…

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