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Title: European enamels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cunynghame, Henry H (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935
Subjects: Enamel and enameling
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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no longerthe adventurous Diana, the slender huntress shodwith the buskin and quiver on back—no, it isBelisa or the Camargo. No more the frankeasy gait, the pride of noble refinement, but a prettyshow of wit, and a well-turned bosom, with a littleplace at Court and a pension from the privy purse.No longer that simple innocence to which all thingsare pure, but a turn for the roguish puerility ofcorrupt old age. Sham love—sham shepherd-life—tucked up petticoats take the place of the nude.The pure line, with its well-calculated bends, itsmeasured combinations, shrivels up into the twirlsof the rococo. The very human body does notescape the passion for flabby contortions. Nothingescapes the universal splitting and snipping. Andall this, patronised, inspired, and directed by anaristocracy polite and delicate, but very futile, which,deprived of its rightful heritage of noble deeds,had forgotten the practice of them, and in conse-quence could no longer have a feeling for noblethings.136
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PLATE, PHCEBUS DRIVING THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN COURT DIT VIGIER PAINTED ENAMELS If one must honour the Mecenas who encouragebudding genius—(which without too great a paradoxone might well refuse to do)—then one is bound tothrow on them the onus of the degeneration of Art.For my part I do not reproach them with it, forI am of those who do not believe that the smilesof Louis XIV gave birth to Corneille. Leo Xdid not make Michael Angelo, nor Raphael, norBramante, and when he put Machiavel to the torturehe could hardly be said to do it in right of paternity.We do not attribute Titian, Tintoret, or Giorgioneto some doge or other. ... I think that greatschools which have slowly and surely developed byteaching and by tradition owe their growth to athousand circumstances independent of the fore-thought as of the will of kings. I argue that theyhave in general rather been led astray than assistedby governments, from the day when rulers, thinkingto honour themselves by pro

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