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A history of painting (1900)

Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928 · Boston : Dana Estes and Co. · leaf 74

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tional Gallery) On the shore, in the left-hand corner of the picture, is seen the half-extinguished fire in which Ulysses heated the staff with which he put outthe eye of Polyphemus, the one-eyed king of the Cyclops, who had devouredthe companions of Ulysses. On the rock above, outlined against the… … OF PAINTING the so-called artists forgathered in Rome could make nothing ofhis works. His sketch-books show him moving from Orleans toLyons, to Marseilles, to Genoa, to Florence, to Orvieto, to Rome.To the Academy he had sent Dido directing the Equipment of the Fleet,the Regatta beating to Windward…

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