. What pictures to see in America. vealed it to was born in Paris in 1813 and diedthere in 1890, but he spent much of his timeat Barbizon, where he painted landscapes andanimals. CHAPTER VI NEW YORK CITY, METROPOLITAN MU-SEUM OF ART (Continued) CIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON (1830-^ 1895) was the seventh president of theRoyal Academy, London, from its beginningone hundred years before. He was not onlyan artist but a man of broad culture. As anartist he adhered to the Greek school in theideal of making beauty of form paramount,rejecting every truth that did not includebeauty of line. This rul
. What pictures to see in America. vealed it to was born in Paris in 1813 and diedthere in 1890, but he spent much of his timeat Barbizon, where he painted landscapes andanimals. CHAPTER VI NEW YORK CITY, METROPOLITAN MU-SEUM OF ART (Continued) CIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON (1830-^ 1895) was the seventh president of theRoyal Academy, London, from its beginningone hundred years before. He was not onlyan artist but a man of broad culture. As anartist he adhered to the Greek school in theideal of making beauty of form paramount,rejecting every truth that did not includebeauty of line. This rule stamped his worksas sculpturesque, yet left them cold and deadas pictures. The lovely Xachrymae (Fig. 42), restingher head on her arm supported by a whitemarble column, is exquisite in her attitude ofgrief, but no chord of sympathy is awakenedin us. She certainly is a beautiful classicfigure, perfect in symmetry of line, with gar-ments suggestive of sorrow, yet we feel thatthe composition would be more effective cutin marble. 90. Fig. 42—Lachrymae. Leighton. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City.
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