. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. character, inladies boudoirs and parlors. At all events the Devil has nowgot a firm footing in modern art, but with what results for goodor bad, remains to be seen. Despite Cortis example, for the moment Italy has neither anideal art like its old, nor has it yet developed the realistic art,which dominates in countries more especially governed bydemocratic ideas and superior habits of domestic life. But theprevailing disquiet points to radical changes, which may finallyrecreate art on a more popular basis, reviv
. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. character, inladies boudoirs and parlors. At all events the Devil has nowgot a firm footing in modern art, but with what results for goodor bad, remains to be seen. Despite Cortis example, for the moment Italy has neither anideal art like its old, nor has it yet developed the realistic art,which dominates in countries more especially governed bydemocratic ideas and superior habits of domestic life. But theprevailing disquiet points to radical changes, which may finallyrecreate art on a more popular basis, revivify religion, and pro-mote the general welfare of the country. Unless this is accom-plished there is even less practical foundation for Giobertistheory of the supremacy of the Latin races in Italy than inFrance, under the guidance of Napoleonic ideas. How canany student or statesman maintain such an illusion in face ofthe rapid advance and increasing pressure of the Teutonic andAnglo-Saxon peoples over all the Latin forms of civilization inthe present juncture of human destiny !.
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