Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 52
eat centres by Church and Court, Art also founda welcome in the country-seats of the nobility, and by their helpspread into the provinces. Still all this progress had been dueto an impulse from without, and was, as it were, a mere pre-paration for the change that was now to take place. As… … CHAPTEK III. THE GREAT EPOCH OF SPANISH PAINTING. (1600—1682.) THE birth of Velazquez was almost coincident with theopening of the seventeenth century. The death of Muvillotook place in 1684. AYithin this period, which witnessed thepolitical decline of Spain, was produced all that was mostsplendid…
Painting, Spanish · Painting, French
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