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Updated: August 4, 2024
The brand he placed upon it is proof of that Laïs Corinthiaca, the infamous mistress of the Greek Apelles. Basel Museum But in 1526 men sat among the ashes of far goodlier palaces and larger interests than personal ones. The party in power was not friendlier to Art than to the Church of Rome.
Henry VIII. and Fisher; the Laïs Corinthiaca, the Duchess of Milan, his brooding wife; dancing children, and dancing Death; Christ on the Cross, Christ in the Grave, Christ Arisen; lambs in the fields, woods and hills, gaping peasants, wild battle; put them side by side, the poor ghosts of them left to us, and compute the range of art "the majestic range" that framed them all. Let us be just.
And when Holbein inscribed his second portrait of Dorothea with the words LAÏS CORINTHIACA, the midsummer madness must have been already a matter of scorn and wonder to himself. His whole life and the works of his life are the negation of the groves of Corinth.
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