. Art in France. ; Chateaubriand, who revealed the senti-mental power of the Gothic monuments to the Romanticists, and Lenoir, who during the revolutionary turmoil received into his Museum of French Monuments the ancient stones, tombs and statues which had been torn from their places and thrown into the gutter. The Genie du Christianisme and the relics accumulated in the Musle des Petits-Augustins kindled French imagination. The Middle Age revealed itself, richlycoloured, moving and mysteri-ous, as in the dim light of thecathedral; the purest Classicists,even Ingres himself, dreamt ofthe Middl
. Art in France. ; Chateaubriand, who revealed the senti-mental power of the Gothic monuments to the Romanticists, and Lenoir, who during the revolutionary turmoil received into his Museum of French Monuments the ancient stones, tombs and statues which had been torn from their places and thrown into the gutter. The Genie du Christianisme and the relics accumulated in the Musle des Petits-Augustins kindled French imagination. The Middle Age revealed itself, richlycoloured, moving and mysteri-ous, as in the dim light of thecathedral; the purest Classicists,even Ingres himself, dreamt ofthe Middle Ages. The first oneswho studied it brought to theirwork so much feeling that anecho of their poetry still lightensat times the dull labours of thelearned. Chateaubriand andLenoir gave the first impetus tothat extensive and varied workwhich was to occupy the nine-teenth century, the age par excel-lence of careful research amongarchives, catalogues of works ofart, restoration of ruins andfoundation of FIG. 782.—PRADIER. FOUNTAIN AT NIMES. {Photo. Fevrot.) ART IN FRANCE
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