Word: mensel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inferior work. Michael Angelo, Raphael, Rubens, da Vinci, Holbein, if alive to-day would show that notoriety is attained now as it was at the periods in which they lived. The two artists who will be ranked as the great artists of this century are Meissonier and Adolf Mensel. Yet these two are essentially different. The former is the object of extraordinary notoriety which he himself fosters and although attaining some excellencies never reached before he is a pronounced example of the artist striving after a coarse publicity. Mensel is a true artist. The notoriety which he enjoys is spontaneous...
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