. Art in France. o. In his pedimentof the Pantheon (Fig. 769), France, supported by Liberty andHistory, distributes crowns of immortality, and on either side, schol-ars, artists, jurists, generals, Bonaparte and his grenadiers, hold 366 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD out their hands to receive them. In this tri-angle David summarised the glorification inwhich all France was interested. He carveda long series of statues of great men, andwith a few exceptions—Racme at La FerteMilon, for instance—he clothed them boldlyin modern costume. On a pedestal, the carvedsides of which tell of glorious achievementsor
. Art in France. o. In his pedimentof the Pantheon (Fig. 769), France, supported by Liberty andHistory, distributes crowns of immortality, and on either side, schol-ars, artists, jurists, generals, Bonaparte and his grenadiers, hold 366 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD out their hands to receive them. In this tri-angle David summarised the glorification inwhich all France was interested. He carveda long series of statues of great men, andwith a few exceptions—Racme at La FerteMilon, for instance—he clothed them boldlyin modern costume. On a pedestal, the carvedsides of which tell of glorious achievementsor proclaim symbolically the benefits of aninvention, there is raised a monumental figurehaving an enormous head, with agitated feat-ures, and the whole silhouette is full ofmovement. Davids numerous busts andmedallions reveal a disciple of Gall, intent onshowing the marks of genius in the features ofthe face and the bumps of the skull; but theseexercises in phrenology astonish without con-vincing; such distor-.
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