Excerpt from Drawings of Watteau Not 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 Publisher Forgotten Books ...
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Excerpt from Drawings of Watteau Not 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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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