. Art in France. the hand of a priest without due reflection. Itwas to indicate that this priest was an Egyptian, and the processionone sees in the distance in the Burial oj Phocion serves to indicatethe date of the Athenian heros death. He is always well pleasedwhen his archceological knowledge prevents him from more than this: to illustrate ancient events is, of course, toreturn to the forms of Greeksculpture. The heroes ofPlutarch and Livy have thisadvantage over modern celeb-rities, that they present them-selves to us in all the grace ofantique statuary. Thus theclaims of tru
. Art in France. the hand of a priest without due reflection. Itwas to indicate that this priest was an Egyptian, and the processionone sees in the distance in the Burial oj Phocion serves to indicatethe date of the Athenian heros death. He is always well pleasedwhen his archceological knowledge prevents him from more than this: to illustrate ancient events is, of course, toreturn to the forms of Greeksculpture. The heroes ofPlutarch and Livy have thisadvantage over modern celeb-rities, that they present them-selves to us in all the grace ofantique statuary. Thus theclaims of truth and beauty,which are at the root of classicthought, are reconciled. Thepainter made no distinctionbetween art and history, be-tween Alexander and had. however, to workfor the religion of his time,and to depict a martyr or amiracle occasionally. Butchurch paintings demanded arhetorical grandiloquence, and Poussin had to strain his voice toaddress the crowd from afar. He preferred to condense some 204. —LK SIKIR. , P THE EVOLUTION OF CLASSICAL ART
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