Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 78
towork to do honour to the greatking. Was it necessary to glorifyhis acts, then it was done byportraying him as Cyrus orAlexander. The people of theseventeenth century did not existfor painters. Lebrun and Mignard,as inheritors of Roman culture,hovered over life without seeingit. Their ideals were… … DEVOTA PROFESION. From ^Los Capriccios. 54 THE HISTORY OF :\IODERN PAINTING age was outworn, and the new began to supersede it. The world wasweary of the majestic, the stiff, and the pompous, whose glamour hadblinded it for sixtj j^ears. The sun-king was dead, and the sun of the
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