The Desire of Beauty

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Excerpt from The Desire of Beauty: Being Indications for Æsthetic CultureTo the astonishment of most of us, our hostess, who is well read in such matters, maintained that the term Fine Art originated in France, that it came first into use there about the middle of the eighteenth century, and that ac cording to the best French authority, Littré, the Fine Arts are painting, sculpt ure, music, architecture, poetry, and elo quence, with dancing as a subsidiary art.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.