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International studio (1897)

New York · leaf 356

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hatin all our talks the name ofMichelangelo has a way of dom-inating all other names, and I donot think that for Charles Rickettsthere are greater monuments ofpictorial and plastic art in theworld than the Sistine Vault andthe Medici Chapel. Yet when, re-calling his book on The Pradoand its… … Charles Ricketts from the moment he sat down to dinner to themoment he settled himself at his writing-desk ateleven p.m. Indeed, so good and copious andsuggestive is Mr. Ricketts talk, that I proposed tocast this essay in the form of a real conversa-tion. I tried to memorise a recent conversation—a…

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