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art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display.

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The guide said that after Titian's time and the time of the other great names we had grown so familiar with, high art declined; then it partially rose again--an inferior sort of painters sprang up, and these shabby pictures were the work of their hands.

The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

You all patter French more or less, and perhaps German; you have seen men and cities, no doubt, and have your opinions, such as they are, about schools of painting, high art, and all that; have seen the pictures of Dresden and the Louvre, and know the taste of sour krout.

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context

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