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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 81

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tised hitherto was gone.People would no longer be mastersof the ceremonies, but humanbeings. New forms of techniquewere discovered, such as pastelpainting. No other material wascapable of rendermg the peculiarfragrance of this fugitive flowernature, the graceful appearance oftliis rococo style, of… … HISTORICAL POSITION OF ART ON THE CONTINENT 57 onTthe model of Watteaus style, to depict the life of the fashionableworld, none approached the delicacy of that national genius. Lancrefand Pater followed him, but more roughly, more soberly, more drily.

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