. Art in France. no. 000.— WIFE AND HER SISTERS. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) 436 NATURALISM. FIG. 910.—HENRI MARTIN. THE MOWERS. (Capitole of Toulouse.) (Photo. Crevaux.) mainly critical; he drew taste, elegance and correctness from theantique sources, but not the secret of vitality. Meanwhile, Florentine influence intervened to modify that of theancients. Many French artists stopped at Florence on their wayto Rome, and there discovered the sculpture of the fifteenth these dry and nervous works they found out that there was agood deal of insipidity in Graeco-Rom
. Art in France. no. 000.— WIFE AND HER SISTERS. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) 436 NATURALISM. FIG. 910.—HENRI MARTIN. THE MOWERS. (Capitole of Toulouse.) (Photo. Crevaux.) mainly critical; he drew taste, elegance and correctness from theantique sources, but not the secret of vitality. Meanwhile, Florentine influence intervened to modify that of theancients. Many French artists stopped at Florence on their wayto Rome, and there discovered the sculpture of the fifteenth these dry and nervous works they found out that there was agood deal of insipidity in Graeco-Roman facility. The deeplyartistic realism of Ghiberti, Donatello and Verrocchio inspired awhole generation of French artists very happily. We see appearfigures of bronze with slender outlines, with pointed extremities;after the soft contours of the Venuses here is the incisive dehcacyand the slenderness of the Florentine Davids and St. Johns; afterthe heroic muscularity, the leanness of the adolescent; after the broad
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