Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 170
can still recover the dimgrandeur of the as yet unknown Louvtc, a palace ofcolossal, fantastic architecture, like a dream, with end-less halls filled with solemn, sombre pictures in heavygilded frames. To see the reality was the longing ofmy youth, and when at last I found myself in that… … The Louvre. 105 which the present Louvre had replaced. It seemed tome that the building had been made entirely as a mu-seum for works of art, chiefly pictures, and that nothingof any consequence had ever stood upon the ground itnow occupied. Deeply interested in all remains of theMiddle Ages that…
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