Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friend to art. Hard times have exercised a profound influence on English and Continental art. All must be "pretty" and "cheerful." Riches are necessary to the artist. If he does not have them, he is crushed and forced to do inferior work. Michael Angelo, Raphael, Rubens, da Vinci, Holbein, if alive to-day would show that notoriety is attained now as it was at the periods in which they lived. The two artists who will be ranked as the great artists of this century are Meissonier and Adolf Mensel. Yet these two are essentially different. The former is the object...