. Art in France. ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 850.— HUBERT. MALARIA. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) affected more theatricalOrientals, and sought toterrify us by depicting thesecret butcheries of theSeraglio, while dazzlingus by the splendour ofthe scene. But there is amore familiar and morequietly picturesque East,that of Guillaumet in thelast generation, and nowof Dinet, and of manyother painters, who bringback brilliant impressionsof their travels in Asia, Indo-China, and Japan (Figs. 856, 857).Painting became richer adapting itself to differences of climate, asit had to the differences of seasons and hou
. Art in France. ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 850.— HUBERT. MALARIA. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) affected more theatricalOrientals, and sought toterrify us by depicting thesecret butcheries of theSeraglio, while dazzlingus by the splendour ofthe scene. But there is amore familiar and morequietly picturesque East,that of Guillaumet in thelast generation, and nowof Dinet, and of manyother painters, who bringback brilliant impressionsof their travels in Asia, Indo-China, and Japan (Figs. 856, 857).Painting became richer adapting itself to differences of climate, asit had to the differences of seasons and hours. Orientalism recon-ciles tradition and the innovators. It has enabled the Roman-ticists to become unavowed naturalists; it incites good pupils toseek new impressions, and offers a kind of chartered licence to theprudent artist. Foreign art is greatly on the increase in France. Artists flockto Paris now to study or to acquaint themselves with the latestEuropean tendencies, just as they flocked to Rome in the sixteenthand se
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