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REAL IMPRESSIONS: NOBLESSE OBLIGE LESS

In contrast with Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde trends of the twentieth century the painters of French Naturalism and Impressionism rarely gave verbal expression to their aesthetics. “The most solid base for the work of art is reality constantly studied.” ( … Continue reading

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BETTER AN ITALIAN COUNTESS

It was, by any measure, the most expensive education ever devised. Its classrooms were the capital of Europe, its textbooks the ruins and monuments of eighteen centuries. From it the young aristocrat could learn, if he chose, how to eat,dress, … Continue reading

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