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Italian backgrounds (1905)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : C. Schribner's Sons · leaf 212

An illustration from Italian backgrounds, 1905, leaf 212
monograph on Bernini, andthe recent volume on Tiepolo in the Knackf uss seriesof Kiinstler-Monographien have done their part inthis redistribution of values; and it is now possiblefor the traveller to survey the course of Italian artwith the impartiality needful for its due enjoyment,and to admire,… … PICTURESQUE MILAN II BUT, it may be asked, though Milan will seem moreinteresting to the emancipated judgment, will it ap-pear more picturesque? Picturesqueness is, afterall, what the Italian pilgrim chiefly seeks; and thecurrent notion of the picturesque is a purely Ger-manic one, connoting Gothic…

Art -- Italy · Italy -- Description and travel

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