How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . DAVID-DELACROIX comparison with Italian painting and with that ofFrance during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,this picture of the Horatii was severely simple. Then,too, what a simple severity of lofty patriotism it rep-resented ! Its success in France was immediate. The people,tired of the voluptuous insipidities of Boucher and theothers, welcomed its severity; while the principle
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . DAVID-DELACROIX comparison with Italian painting and with that ofFrance during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,this picture of the Horatii was severely simple. Then,too, what a simple severity of lofty patriotism it rep-resented ! Its success in France was immediate. The people,tired of the voluptuous insipidities of Boucher and theothers, welcomed its severity; while the principles offreedom and love of country that it inculcated gave atonce a definite voice to the floating theories of the , the old Roman brand of it, simple, un-selfish, frugal, began to be considered the panacea forall the ills from which the French branch of the Latinrace was suffering. David proved to be the strong man,fitted to the hour, and his influence, first asserted in thispicture, played a big part in the subsequent the latter commenced he was forty years old. Hewas elected a deputy in the Convention, and appointedMinister of Fine Arts. In this capacity he was a de
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