Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] [with an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine]

EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE
something which we feel, but cannot see with the
fleshy vision-such as joy, sorrow, resentment, and
so on. This is best achieved by the employment of
that treatment which we call the impressionist, in
the trade. The present example is an impressionist
picture, done in distemper, with a chiaroscuro motif
modified by monochromatic technique, so as to secure
tenderness of feeling and spirituality of expression.
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THAT THING IN THE RIGHT HAND IS NOT A SKILLET; IT IS A
TAMBOURINE
At a first glance it would seem to be a Botticelli, but
it is not that; it is only a humble imitation of that
great master of longness and slimness and limbfulness.
The work is imagined from Greek story, and
represents Proserpine or Persepolis, or one of those
other Bacchantes doing the solemnities of welcome
before the altar of Isis upon the arrival of the annual
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