. Art in France. TIIK SllKPlIKKDS OK AKI ADIA. (Tlie Louvie, iaiis.) 208 THE EVOLUTION OF CLASSICAL ART. FIG. 430.—POUSSIN. THE CHILDHOOD OF BACCHUS. (Conde Museum, Chantilly.) with the pleasure of theeye. Adapted to thedimensions of our field ofvision, so that a singlelook, can take in the wholecomposition, without losinga single detail, they re-quire to be analysed andexamined in a small the great Frenchwriters of the seventeenthcentury Poussin condensedinto brief works sentimentswhich were floatingvaguely in space, not having yet found their perfect forms. Thevirile poe
. Art in France. TIIK SllKPlIKKDS OK AKI ADIA. (Tlie Louvie, iaiis.) 208 THE EVOLUTION OF CLASSICAL ART. FIG. 430.—POUSSIN. THE CHILDHOOD OF BACCHUS. (Conde Museum, Chantilly.) with the pleasure of theeye. Adapted to thedimensions of our field ofvision, so that a singlelook, can take in the wholecomposition, without losinga single detail, they re-quire to be analysed andexamined in a small the great Frenchwriters of the seventeenthcentury Poussin condensedinto brief works sentimentswhich were floatingvaguely in space, not having yet found their perfect forms. Thevirile poetry of this great logician blossomed under the sky of Rome,and passed afterwards into the French soil. The enthusiasm 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 a
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