miccio

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'Oh, pack it up, Miccio, he said to his pupil, 'and you and the others take it home; these people are delighted with the earthy part of the work; the questions of its aim, its beauty, its artistic merit, are of no importance whatever; novelty of subject goes for much more than truth of rendering. So said Zeuxis, not in the best of tempers.

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