. Art in France. FIG. 911.—HENRI THE OLD SHEPHERD. (Sorbonne.) (Fholo. Crevaux.) 437 ART IN FRANCE. HG. 912.—COTTET. LOW MASSIN BRITTANY. (Petit-Palais, Paris.) modelling of the nude,the meticulous chisellingof details. Falguiere,Fremiet, Paul Dubois,Eugene Barrias, Geromeand Antonin Mercie,resuscitated this style intheir respective Florentine influencewas more propitious tosculptors than to painters;the works of the fifteenthcentury really lent newexpression to statuary,whereas imitation of thePre-Raphaelites failed togive birth to a visible school of painting. Michelang
. Art in France. FIG. 911.—HENRI THE OLD SHEPHERD. (Sorbonne.) (Fholo. Crevaux.) 437 ART IN FRANCE. HG. 912.—COTTET. LOW MASSIN BRITTANY. (Petit-Palais, Paris.) modelling of the nude,the meticulous chisellingof details. Falguiere,Fremiet, Paul Dubois,Eugene Barrias, Geromeand Antonin Mercie,resuscitated this style intheir respective Florentine influencewas more propitious tosculptors than to painters;the works of the fifteenthcentury really lent newexpression to statuary,whereas imitation of thePre-Raphaelites failed togive birth to a visible school of painting. Michelangelos athleticforms and daring attitudes also inspired a number of lively and ex-pressive works. Carpeaux sometimes recalls the great Florentine,and Paul Dubois has placed four bronze figures at the angles ofGeneral Lamoricieres tomb in Nantes Cathedral (Fig. 916) graveand meditative as those of the Medici Chapel. Rene de Saint-Marceaux, again, has more than once translated the proud beautyand the vigour of the Sistine nudities into marble. Florence also played a part in the work of those admirable art
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