Life Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Vol. 1 of 2<br><br>Ten years and more have passed since Leighton died yet it is still difficult to get sufficiently far away to take in the whole of his life and being in their just proportion to the world in which he lived.<br><br>When we are in Rome hemmed in by narrow streets St. Peter''s is invisible; once across that wonderful Cam pagna and mounting the slopes of Frascati there like a huge pearl gleaming in the light rises the dome of the Mother Church. As distance gives the true relation between a lofty building and its suburbs so time alone can decide the height Of the pedestal on which to place the great.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.