Excerpt from Drawings of WatteauNot only did this illusionist, who created a new art out of a renaissance mythology composed of persons and forms borrowed from Italy, succeed in idealising all the shadowy and elegant figures vowed to the cult of Cupid, but with infinite taste, and a rare feeling which transported realities into dreams, he conceived incomparable scenes, landscapes of mysterious fairy - like enchantment, with blue horizons and sleepy lakes of unsurpassable luminosity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Drawings of WatteauNot only did this illusionist, who created a new art out of a renaissance mythology composed of persons and forms borrowed from Italy, succeed in idealising all the shadowy and elegant figures vowed to the cult of Cupid, but with infinite taste, and a rare feeling which transported realities into dreams, he conceived incomparable scenes, landscapes of mysterious fairy - like enchantment, with blue horizons and sleepy lakes of unsurpassable luminosity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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