This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...in the midst of apparent caprices one can never lose himself. Hero Poussin rules as a master, surrounded by Stella, Mignard, Bourdon, Coypel. I think I see Le Sueur airing his melancholy on the neat alleys; Le-brun on the other hand shows himself in broad daylight, and parades like Louis XIV. Claude Lorraine, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...in the midst of apparent caprices one can never lose himself. Hero Poussin rules as a master, surrounded by Stella, Mignard, Bourdon, Coypel. I think I see Le Sueur airing his melancholy on the neat alleys; Le-brun on the other hand shows himself in broad daylight, and parades like Louis XIV. Claude Lorraine, seated apart, studies aerial perspective, and contemplates the warm vapors of the horizon. Each one keeps his character and manner. Rigaud poises his models; the gentle Sauterre surprises Susanna in her bath; Jouvenet torments himself, Valentin is intoxicated, Le Nain brings in his poor beggars, Chardin and Greuze lead in their families, while Lemoine, on his back, imagines all the figures foreshortened on a ceiling, and Watteau lies on a lawn in the shade of a vase of flowers." What a French paradise! but how quickly Michel Angelo would rush from it to the mountains of Carrara, Rembrandt seek the flaming light of a blacksmith-shop, and Teniers find refuge in an ale-house. Blanc claims then that the French school is the school of positive thought, historical and political, always occupied with action, always in travail of humanity. Spirituality, best expressed in France by Le Sueur, was little appreciated, had little influence, and as, he says " appeared only in our day in the midst of a generation which has penetrated the sublime melancholy of Leopold Robert." Monsieur Coquerel, whose Protestant feeling appears very strongly in his views of Art, lays great stress on the religious and political changes in France. He says, " Italian taste began to prevail in France since the time of Charles VIII., thanks to the fiction of our conquest of Italy and possession of the Milanese territory; and the twofold absolutism of Catholicism and royalty...
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