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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: may remain; but beyond a doubt the view that we saw from the window
is the same that Titian saw. Now, for the first time, I could
understand and appreciate the landscape-backgrounds of his
pictures. The compact masses of mountains, the bold, sharp forms,
the hanging rocks of cold gray emerging from green slopes, the
intense blue aerial distances--these all had seemed to be unreal
and imaginary--compositions of the studio. But now I knew that,
whether Titian painted out-of-doors, like our modern
impressionists, or not, he certainly painted what he had seen, and
painted it as it is.
The graceful brown-eyed boy who showed us the house seemed also to
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