. Art in France. FIG. 847.— l)E M:1\III1 1111: (KMKIKKV OF lKI\ \l. ( Thi Luxi-nihciuri?, Paris.) 406 NATURALISM. FIG. 848. —DETAILLE. ENTRY OF THE GRANDE ARMEE INTO PARIS, iSoO ( (Hotel de Ville. Paris.) things. Romanticism naturally loved its brilliant colours. Decamps,Delacroix, Dehodencq and Marilhat painted multicoloured turbans,robes and textiles, architecture with minarets, majestic ruins andburning sands; many, like Ziem, stopped short at Venice, and thedazzling vision of her marble palaces suspended between sky andwater has blotted out the rest of the world for them (Fig. 8
. Art in France. FIG. 847.— l)E M:1\III1 1111: (KMKIKKV OF lKI\ \l. ( Thi Luxi-nihciuri?, Paris.) 406 NATURALISM. FIG. 848. —DETAILLE. ENTRY OF THE GRANDE ARMEE INTO PARIS, iSoO ( (Hotel de Ville. Paris.) things. Romanticism naturally loved its brilliant colours. Decamps,Delacroix, Dehodencq and Marilhat painted multicoloured turbans,robes and textiles, architecture with minarets, majestic ruins andburning sands; many, like Ziem, stopped short at Venice, and thedazzling vision of her marble palaces suspended between sky andwater has blotted out the rest of the world for them (Fig. 85 I). Naturalism did not injure Orientalism; the taste for strangeimpressions became keener; reality ceases to be vulgar when itis exotic. Before his early death, Henri Regnault had revivedDelacroixs Mauresque Ro-manticism, and had foundin Spain a spirited and richlycoloured style, whereas inParis he would doubtlesshave allowed himself to berecalled to a more discreetdistinction. Fromentinpainted Arabs hunting, andtouched the satin coats oftheir horses with a delicatebrush (Fig. 855). He wouldnever have be
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