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... artistic revolutions being worked by living artists : to the plein air study of nature and times of day in the Roman campagna by the German landscape painter Adam Elsheimer ; to the colour combinations and delicate appreciation of warm ...
... artistic revolutions being worked by living artists : to the plein air study of nature and times of day in the Roman campagna by the German landscape painter Adam Elsheimer ; to the colour combinations and delicate appreciation of warm ...
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... artists founded in reaction against contem- porary academic painting , less because he admired them from the first than because he thought the critics unfair to them . He befriended the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti , who ...
... artists founded in reaction against contem- porary academic painting , less because he admired them from the first than because he thought the critics unfair to them . He befriended the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti , who ...
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... artists . Scottish writers have the choice of three languages : Gaelic , Lallans ( or Scots The use of vernacular ) , and English . Gaelic is understood by only Gaelic a small minority ( 180,978 Gaelic speakers , mostly in western Ross ...
... artists . Scottish writers have the choice of three languages : Gaelic , Lallans ( or Scots The use of vernacular ) , and English . Gaelic is understood by only Gaelic a small minority ( 180,978 Gaelic speakers , mostly in western Ross ...
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