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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 242

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hershoulder, and one arm, bent back-wards, enframes her face. Silentlike a cloud, the group moves on-ward—a sweet-scented apparitionfrom fairyland. Now, enrapturedgenii visit the slumbering Fair Onein forest-shadows, under the shim-mering moon ; now she is stealingsecretly down to bathe in a… … 20-t THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING of longing love, by the side of Adonis. Who else, at that time, could drawnude figures of such faultless beauty, so slender and pure, with lines sosupple and jct so firm, and enveloped in so full and soft a light ? Oragain, he paints Zephyr swinging roguishly by…

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