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Gustavus III and Culture 289
born his undying pictures, in poetry and music, of the
checkered life at inns and taverns and in nature’s re-
treats. The world to him was a big child nursery,
where all played, and no one was weighed down by
life’s burdens.
Sergei’s Statue of Gustavus III in Stockholm.
Johan Tobias Sergei He was Sweden’s
sculptor, her greatest artist. He escaped the
of artists privation and want. In Italy, the
of artists, beneath the soft blue southern sky,
from the bare and artless North could enjoy
ous Greek and Roman art-creations of gods
greatest
usual lot
Paradise
the youth
the glori-
and god-
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