. Art in France. 715. ^. MMK. (Drawing.) (The Louvre, Paris.) 340 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. FIG. 716.— (Museum of \ersailles.) victorious on the barricades. While shotswere flying in the street below, Ingressat at his window, and touched his VenusAnadyomene with a loving brush. Vi-brating to every breath of passion, carriedaway by the impression of a moment,Delacroix cried: I begm to paint awoman, and I make a lion. Late inlife Ingres finished a study begun in hisyouth, and in this Source we can dis-cover no discord between inspirationand method. Delacroi
. Art in France. 715. ^. MMK. (Drawing.) (The Louvre, Paris.) 340 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. FIG. 716.— (Museum of \ersailles.) victorious on the barricades. While shotswere flying in the street below, Ingressat at his window, and touched his VenusAnadyomene with a loving brush. Vi-brating to every breath of passion, carriedaway by the impression of a moment,Delacroix cried: I begm to paint awoman, and I make a lion. Late inlife Ingres finished a study begun in hisyouth, and in this Source we can dis-cover no discord between inspirationand method. Delacroix was alwavsinventing, and would not tolerate imita-tion. Ingres imitated continually eithernature or the old masters, and believedthere was no such thing as exhibited an Apotheosis of Homerwhich was designed to be a kind ofCredo for his classical religion ; it repre-sents great artists and writers doing homage to the poet of the Iliadand the Odyssey for the works with which he had inspired , neither Ingres nor Delacroix felt it essential to make hisart conform to the aesthetic
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