La Peinture Française Au Xixe Siècle, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: George Besson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331027631
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Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Excerpt from La Peinture Française Au Xixe Siècle, Vol. 1 Count de Caylus in i74s, later Winkelmann and Quatre mere de Quincy, were among those who brought back into fashion a taste for Antiquity and the grande maniere in pain ting inspired by neo-greek sculpture. David was both their collaborator and their executor. As a man he served the Revo lutian with the zeal of a partisan, as a painter he considered it his duty to the state to teach only such principles as glorify the antique virtues, the fruits of reason and which repudiate the fetes galantes of the Eighteenth Century. Thanks to David, for years Beauty. Was limited in its inspiration to Archaeology, Athens, Greece, and the aged Horatii. In the same way we find Ingres, about ib4o, a prisoner of the traditions of the institute, applying, in the name of Phidias and Raphael, prin ciples fully as pernicious when employed by feeble collaborators. Forthough the Institute had Ingres, it also had Picot, Hersent, Blondel, just as it later had Ge'rome, in other words a rigid organism which only allowed pupils to have a certain sense of Art, and where the recipes of a hand-book on painting would enable the student to make a career in his profession rather express his personality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.