. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. BY PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS CXL. T HE BARBIZOX PAINTERSBY E. L. GARY We are apt to think of the School of1830 as a group of artists distinguishedby a common worship of nature. Ahhough theyhave been called the Romanticists, the title can onlybe applied with an approach toward accuracy to afew of them who inherit directly from and Decamps belong to this class, whosemembers painted the adjusted landscape, wentto Italy and to the East for their scenery and soughttheir subjects in literature and history. Their a
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. BY PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS CXL. T HE BARBIZOX PAINTERSBY E. L. GARY We are apt to think of the School of1830 as a group of artists distinguishedby a common worship of nature. Ahhough theyhave been called the Romanticists, the title can onlybe applied with an approach toward accuracy to afew of them who inherit directly from and Decamps belong to this class, whosemembers painted the adjusted landscape, wentto Italy and to the East for their scenery and soughttheir subjects in literature and history. Their artwas redolent of cultivation, they painted anecdotes,but they chose their anecdotes with skill and taste,and they narrated the detail of picturesque eventswith eloquence. Mr. Brownell has said of them asa class that to lament their lack of poetry is to misstheir admirable rhetoric, to regret their imperfectfeeling for decorativeness is to miss their delightfuldecorum. The Fontainebleau or Barbizon paint-ers, on the other hand, practised what the Germans j^ //
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