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... artistic formation : his longtime residence in Rome , his sketches of ancient ruins , his reading of Ovid and Philostratus , his observation of nature . Cézanne once claimed that all he wished to do as artist was ' revive Poussin in the ...
... artistic formation : his longtime residence in Rome , his sketches of ancient ruins , his reading of Ovid and Philostratus , his observation of nature . Cézanne once claimed that all he wished to do as artist was ' revive Poussin in the ...
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... artist communicates in this drawing are prophetic of the greater canvases to come . There is nothing cluttered or ... artist's life which require notice ; his fidelity to the Aeneid text is deliberate and remarkable in almost every ...
... artist communicates in this drawing are prophetic of the greater canvases to come . There is nothing cluttered or ... artist's life which require notice ; his fidelity to the Aeneid text is deliberate and remarkable in almost every ...
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... artist . At the close of his life in 1850 , Turner produced four oils which illustrated the tragic love story of ... artist's Arcadian vision and to the bitter realities of the human condition , frail in the face of evil but part of a ...
... artist . At the close of his life in 1850 , Turner produced four oils which illustrated the tragic love story of ... artist's Arcadian vision and to the bitter realities of the human condition , frail in the face of evil but part of a ...
Contents
The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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