. Art in France. personages in picturesqueGothic garments. Solitary poets,lyre in hand, dreaming upontombs; delicate lovers embracing,spied upon by jealous rivals; women dragged by the hair; maskedfaces; hang-dog executioners; black dungeon cells—the illustratorsimitated and surpassed literature in excesses. Then there was themacabre style, the dead rising from tombs, grinning skeletons, witcheson broomsticks; acrobatic Mephistos, shaggy, angular, Gothic roofs the gargoyles and monsters came down; fromold German castles came flights of bats and of witches riding broom-sticks ; hell
. Art in France. personages in picturesqueGothic garments. Solitary poets,lyre in hand, dreaming upontombs; delicate lovers embracing,spied upon by jealous rivals; women dragged by the hair; maskedfaces; hang-dog executioners; black dungeon cells—the illustratorsimitated and surpassed literature in excesses. Then there was themacabre style, the dead rising from tombs, grinning skeletons, witcheson broomsticks; acrobatic Mephistos, shaggy, angular, Gothic roofs the gargoyles and monsters came down; fromold German castles came flights of bats and of witches riding broom-sticks ; hell opened its gates, and in this little world of the illustrator,devils were as numerousas Cupids had been inthe time of Boucher. While the battle wasraging between Classi-cists and Romanticists,Decamps (1803-1860)won universal admirationwith his little robustlv-painted pictures. Likethe Romanticists, heshowed himself a colour-ist, and a lover of rareeffects; like them, he was m. 71 attracted by the vision of 338. ■ APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER. (The Louvre, Paris.) THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
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