American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . mental renderings of the same animal thathave come down to us from antiquity, such as the well-known Lion on the Steps of the Capitol, atRome. Baryes bas-relief represented a new departure, which did away completely with the tram-mels of received conventionalism, and accepted nature pure and simple. In that massive frame ofbone and muscle, ponderous, but of supple action, there is an expression of life, freedom, and truthwhich could not be acceptable to the official representatives of the academical French art of thetime;

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American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . mental renderings of the same animal thathave come down to us from antiquity, such as the well-known Lion on the Steps of the Capitol, atRome. Baryes bas-relief represented a new departure, which did away completely with the tram-mels of received conventionalism, and accepted nature pure and simple. In that massive frame ofbone and muscle, ponderous, but of supple action, there is an expression of life, freedom, and truthwhich could not be acceptable to the official representatives of the academical French art of thetime; and it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that in the year 1837 the jury refused to admit theartists bronzes to the Salon. Barye, however, did not allow himself to be turned aside from thepath which nature had marked out for him. Soon after appeared his Lion and Serpent, andLion and Horse, in both of which the ferocity of the lion is most powerfully depicted, while in thelatter we seem to hear the frenzied shriek of the victim. And so with his other beasts of Antoine Louis on Wood by G. Kruell, from a Photograph. 124 AMERICAN ART

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