. Art in France. KIC. 4f)0. «0\SK\ ST OF THE CRE^T CX)NDt. (The Louvri, Iaris.) THE MONARCHICAL ART OF LOUIS XIV. FIG. 4OI.—PL GET. MILO OF CROTOXA. (The Louvre, Paris.) and Tritons, In the midst of whom the Sun-God descends from his car, cold and elegant as the Belvedere Apollo. In the allegorical figures he placed on certain tombs—-the most famous is that of Richelieu (Fig. 433) —the lines of the draperies and the bodies are very gracefully rounded; it is the eloquence of a cold and rhetorical orator, but one whose noble or gracious tone is always appropriate. Nevertheless, in the Bass
. Art in France. KIC. 4f)0. «0\SK\ ST OF THE CRE^T CX)NDt. (The Louvri, Iaris.) THE MONARCHICAL ART OF LOUIS XIV. FIG. 4OI.—PL GET. MILO OF CROTOXA. (The Louvre, Paris.) and Tritons, In the midst of whom the Sun-God descends from his car, cold and elegant as the Belvedere Apollo. In the allegorical figures he placed on certain tombs—-the most famous is that of Richelieu (Fig. 433) —the lines of the draperies and the bodies are very gracefully rounded; it is the eloquence of a cold and rhetorical orator, but one whose noble or gracious tone is always appropriate. Nevertheless, in the Bassin du Nord, at Versailles, a leaden bas-relief reveals a robust sensuality, under the sustained elo-quence of the decorative style. Nymphs are shown frolicking in the water, and here Girardon has given the bodies a lively supple-ness and a suggestion of the warmth and tenderness of living flesh (Fig. 452). Coysevox (1640-1 720), on the other hand, was too intelligent an artist to be submerged in the collective work of Versailles. Like the others, he placed reclming nymphs and river-gods on the margins of poo
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