. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. e sea. They haveonly two sorts of quaintly primitive tones, one for calm and onefor storm. Yet they attempt in bronze, not without a hint ofsuccess, to render the toss and roll of breakers ; only the crestsof the waves get shaped into weird-like claws, which, however,accord very well with their fantastic effigy of Neptune. Cheou-lao, god of longevity, familiarly called the Old Child,is a favorite Eastern divinity. He was born 601 years b. c,after eighty-one years pregnancy of his mother, so the mythruns. As his
. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. e sea. They haveonly two sorts of quaintly primitive tones, one for calm and onefor storm. Yet they attempt in bronze, not without a hint ofsuccess, to render the toss and roll of breakers ; only the crestsof the waves get shaped into weird-like claws, which, however,accord very well with their fantastic effigy of Neptune. Cheou-lao, god of longevity, familiarly called the Old Child,is a favorite Eastern divinity. He was born 601 years b. c,after eighty-one years pregnancy of his mother, so the mythruns. As his venerable image shows, he was always gay,living long and jovially, believing that happiness consists inso doing, and ever seeking by means of alchemy to find thesecret of terrestrial immortality. Japanese mythology is aspantheistic in its ideas as the Grecian, only, instead of findingthe divine in beauty, it invests the creative and governing ele-ments of life in fantastic and ugly shapes, repulsive to our eyes,but which may nevertheless fascinate those of the devout CHAPTER X. THE PAINTERS OP FRANCE. HILE Italy, Germany, and Flanders Foreignpossessed renowned schools of painters, «^«^«»»^and which had wholly in Italy and partly in theother countries passed into stages of decline, Francein common with Spain and England had acquiredno European reputation in this direction. The foreign elementearly exercised considerable influence, in the higher aspects acontrolling one, on French art. To go back to A. D. 1338-9,Simone Martini, the rival of Giotto, was called to Avignon,and, working there until his death ^ve years later, inspiredFrench taste with a liking for the loftier motives and broadertreatment of his native land. Previously, the degenerate By-zantine models had been popular, as may be seen in the Heuresde TEmpereur Charlemagne of the Louvre, A. d. 780. This isnot specially French work, but it shows the condition of colorand design at that epoch in Western
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