Excerpt from Archives des Missions Scientifiques Et Litteraires, 1868, Vol. 5: Choix de Rapports Et Instructions S'il nous etait permis de remplacer par des denominations nou velles celles que l'usage a depuis si longtemps consacrees, nous appellerions plus volontiers la peinture d'histoire grande peinture, et la peinture de genre petite peinture. En effet, le premier de ces termes est insuffisant pour designer toutes les oeuvres aux quelles il correspond: le second est vague et incommode. Il est convenu de nommer peinture ...
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Excerpt from Archives des Missions Scientifiques Et Litteraires, 1868, Vol. 5: Choix de Rapports Et Instructions S'il nous etait permis de remplacer par des denominations nou velles celles que l'usage a depuis si longtemps consacrees, nous appellerions plus volontiers la peinture d'histoire grande peinture, et la peinture de genre petite peinture. En effet, le premier de ces termes est insuffisant pour designer toutes les oeuvres aux quelles il correspond: le second est vague et incommode. Il est convenu de nommer peinture d'histoire la representation des sujets mythologiques, des personnages ou des scenes empruntes a la tra dition religieuse. Le Jugement dernier, de michel-ange, est de la peinture d'histoire aussi bien que la Dispute du Saint - Sacrement, la Messe de Bolsone, ou la Communion de saint Jerome. On ne dira pas de Poussin, dans son Deluge, son Diogene, et dans la plupart de ses grands paysages, qu'il est peintre de genre, mais on intitulera ces compositions paysage historique. L'expression peinture d'his toire, dit un critique autorise en ces matieres', ne veut pas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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