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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 392

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works in which he renounces the piquant adjunct ofthe demoniacal, the tragical, and the mystical, and becomes merely a painter.Amongst those works is to be reckoned that beautiful Madonna on thealtar, painted in 1886, and so tenderly illustrating the verses of Heine— Und wer eine Wachshand… … HanJstiingLTHE lions bride. of gaiety, happiness, and peace ; a young girl sits under the blossoming bushes,and listens enraptured to the warbling of a nightingale. Those pictures, the mood of which grows out of the landscape around— The Nun in the Cloister Garden, Adagio, The Spring Tale, and…

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