. Art in France. thusiasm of archsologists and artists does not fully explainthe fascination of Rome for the men of the North. Throughout theages, Celt and Teuton have dreamed of Italy, and have succumbedto her charm. The Germans of Barbarossa and the Frenchmen ofLouis XII knew the nostalgia awakened by that smiling land, wherethey tasted a joy not easily evoked under their own sterner the countries whose artists crossed the Alps in great numberswere those who had to wait longest for men to depict their ownlandscapes faithfully ; the vision of transalpine landscape painters waslong
. Art in France. thusiasm of archsologists and artists does not fully explainthe fascination of Rome for the men of the North. Throughout theages, Celt and Teuton have dreamed of Italy, and have succumbedto her charm. The Germans of Barbarossa and the Frenchmen ofLouis XII knew the nostalgia awakened by that smiling land, wherethey tasted a joy not easily evoked under their own sterner the countries whose artists crossed the Alps in great numberswere those who had to wait longest for men to depict their ownlandscapes faithfully ; the vision of transalpine landscape painters waslong obsessed by memories of Rome or Naples. Among those poets bom of the contact ofNorth and South, ClaudeC-ellee was one of thosewho most fully appreciatedthe warm light of Mediter-ranean skies. ClaudeC-ellee, called Le Lorrain(1600-1682), lived atRome in a cosmopolitancircle, where men of everynation went by the nameof their native land. Anignorant and simple spirit,he was little concernedwith the historic memories. FIG. 437.—porssiN. DIOGENES THROWING .WVAY HIS BOWL. (The Louvre, Paris.) 209 ART IN FRANCE
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