Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 33
er\-ation of life. He was a painterwho, with as little aid from foreign influences as from those of the past,went his own way and kept to it, and devoted his art, unblemished bythe pallor of a borrowed ideal of beauty, soberly and exclusively to therealities of surrounding life. It seemed to me… … COMMENCEMENT OF MODERN ART IN ENGLAND 13 went back to Raphael and the Caracci, were ignored and ridiculed by him.His rude strength of painting, directed to the living truth, was a protestagainst all tliat idealism which was the heritage of the Renaissance, and hadgrown quite bombastic under the…
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