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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 216

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rst tofeel and give expression to that modernsense of longing desire which turnsback from a nervous, colourless age,from the prosiness of everyday life,towards a vanished Saturnian era,when man still lived at peace andundisturbed in happy union withnature. For even this proclaims himi>ur… … THE LEGACY OF GERMAN ROMANTICISM i8i Boecklins sense, who transformed the temper of Nature into thecontemplation of hving beings —he spoke of the rest and peace ofGerman forests, of that hour of summers night when no wind blows, noleaflet moves, when to the solitary wanderer in the woods the mists

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