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Painting in the Far East : an introduction to the history of pictorial art in Asia especially China and Japan (1913)

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 366

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which, thoughnot eminently productive in quantity of work, wasyet so rich in inspiration both for contemporariesand for the future. Those themes of beauty whichGiorgione discovered in the favourite pleasuresof his own Venetians—their summer picnics amongthe wooded hills, to which music lent a… … MATABEI South have given v^^ay to the interiors of the North,with stray beams of sunshine adding some touchof pensive charm and suggestion to shadowy cornersand famihar furniture, some glorifying caress tothe common things of home. In Watteau and hisfollowers, again, the same type of art is born…

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