. St. Nicholas [serial] . e uponit. He was one of the founders in Frenchart of what is called the classic or academicschool, which would reject everything that iscommon or vulgar, and paint only typesas near as possible to perfection. So, in thecase of a landscape, the painter would select amorsel from this place, and others elsewhere,and put together out of his head a compositionthat should present an ideally beautiful ar-rangement of lines in masses. This exactlysuited the taste of the time, in which the greatgardens of Versailles were laid out with com-bination of grottoes, fountains, archi
. St. Nicholas [serial] . e uponit. He was one of the founders in Frenchart of what is called the classic or academicschool, which would reject everything that iscommon or vulgar, and paint only typesas near as possible to perfection. So, in thecase of a landscape, the painter would select amorsel from this place, and others elsewhere,and put together out of his head a compositionthat should present an ideally beautiful ar-rangement of lines in masses. This exactlysuited the taste of the time, in which the greatgardens of Versailles were laid out with com-bination of grottoes, fountains, architecture,and landscape. The result was a popularityfor Claudes pictures which extended through-out the eighteenth century and on intothe following one. He was regarded as thegreatest of landscape-painters. When, how-ever, Frenchmen began to turn to nature di-rectly, they soon discovered Hobbemas workand made it the foundation of their own ef-forts ; carrying the truth to nature in theirwork even further than he did in EACH LITTLE GIRL IS NEAT AND SWEET, AND ALL ARE QUAINTLY DRESSED. HOW CAN WE CHOOSE ONK MAY-QUEEN AND LEAVE OUT ALL THE REST? WHICH IS THE NEATEST, WHICH IS THE SWEETEST, AND WHICH DO YOU LIKE THE BEST? Vol. XXXII.—78. IN MERRY ENGLAND. By Lucy Fitch Perkins.
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