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Maurice Denis. Amour. Copte the RenaissanceMaurice Denis (1870 1943) was a painter and theoretician of French modern art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Beyond his famous motto of 1890, "Remember that a paintingbefore being a warhorse, a naked woman, or any anecdoteis essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order," the richness of his pictorial production and the abundance of his writings reveal the ambition of a life entirely devoted to art, love, and