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Art exhibits still less pleasing results. In architecture, sculpture, and painting there was, no doubt, a more and more general diffusion of a dilettante interest, but the exercise of native art retrograded rather than advanced. It became more and more customary for those sojourning in Grecian lands personally to inspect the works of art; for which in particular the winter-quarters of Sulla's army in Asia Minor in 670-671 formed an epoch. Co
Finally, music and dancing passed over in like ma
If, in conclusion, we glance back at the picture as a whole which the literature and art of Italy unfold to our view from the death of E
The foundation of these sciences which properly falls within the present epoch, and the first small begi