. Art in France. OK KC. (.Must-urn of Wrsailles.) 332 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. HU. 699.—DELACROIX. THE JUSTICE OFTRAJAN. (Museum of Rouen.) hid the real aspect of things fromhim; this short-sighted painterwas a visionary. The presenceof the model checked his inspira-tion ; he only resorted to it occa-sionally to repair his lapses ofmemory, and he had the samecontempt for historical accuracy-He made no pretence, like De-laroche, of attempting to recon-struct the Middle Ages accurate-ly. Historical accuracy is aheavy fetter for a poet. Thelocal colour of historians ismerely retrospective
. Art in France. OK KC. (.Must-urn of Wrsailles.) 332 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. HU. 699.—DELACROIX. THE JUSTICE OFTRAJAN. (Museum of Rouen.) hid the real aspect of things fromhim; this short-sighted painterwas a visionary. The presenceof the model checked his inspira-tion ; he only resorted to it occa-sionally to repair his lapses ofmemory, and he had the samecontempt for historical accuracy-He made no pretence, like De-laroche, of attempting to recon-struct the Middle Ages accurate-ly. Historical accuracy is aheavy fetter for a poet. Thelocal colour of historians ismerely retrospective realism. Thus Delacroixs world ismarvellously coherent and har-monious, in spite of its strange-ness. In his nature, which is notthat in which we live, sky, plants, rocks and animals, flesh anddraperies participate in a kind of feverish exaltation and ardentmelancholy. This world is the projection of his soul, the translationof his temperament into images. The most real things in me are the illusions I create with my paint-ing. His own emotions, and thoseof his time, live in his
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