Excerpt from The National Gallery IN 1831 some justification existed for Coleridge's sweeping assertion that the darkest despotisms on the Continent have done more for the growth and elevation of the fine arts than the English government. Most of the great European galleries - the Louvre, the Hermitage, the Prado and almost all the galleries of Germany - had their origin in the collections of amiable despots. They were thrown Open to the public by the democratic governments of the nineteenth cen tury, less despotic perhaps ...
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Excerpt from The National Gallery IN 1831 some justification existed for Coleridge's sweeping assertion that the darkest despotisms on the Continent have done more for the growth and elevation of the fine arts than the English government. Most of the great European galleries - the Louvre, the Hermitage, the Prado and almost all the galleries of Germany - had their origin in the collections of amiable despots. They were thrown Open to the public by the democratic governments of the nineteenth cen tury, less despotic perhaps, but unquestionably less amiable so far as art was concerned. 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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