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That is kind of, uhh, "busy", isn't it.
As Mark Twain said of the pamphlet "The English As She Is Spoke" - "One cannot open this book anywhere and not find richness." You could spend a week peering into the odd corners of this work. If you go to the source you can enlarge the heck out of it . . . there's a lot going on, all of it pretty silly. The French art of the time fundamentally lacked dignity. Delacroix did his best (and was a much better painter), but even he succumbed to the craze for didactic "busyness".
