. Art in France. hetes were celebrating the coldand declamatory beauty of the Belvedere Apollo. The supremecharm of his work lies in the tender seduction of the colour andlight; among all the coldly contemplative painters of his day,Prudhon alone had a voluptuous eye. The graceful forms of hisnymphs bathe in an atmosphere which they illuminate with theirwarm whiteness, and their flesh, drinking in the light, gives backto obscurity the rays they have received. It was thus that Cor-reggio in his time animated the cold statues of Florentine design, byputting into them a diffused light which seems
. Art in France. hetes were celebrating the coldand declamatory beauty of the Belvedere Apollo. The supremecharm of his work lies in the tender seduction of the colour andlight; among all the coldly contemplative painters of his day,Prudhon alone had a voluptuous eye. The graceful forms of hisnymphs bathe in an atmosphere which they illuminate with theirwarm whiteness, and their flesh, drinking in the light, gives backto obscurity the rays they have received. It was thus that Cor-reggio in his time animated the cold statues of Florentine design, byputting into them a diffused light which seems to reveal an innerlife. Prudhon was guided to Greek beauty by his instincts as a painter more infalliblythan was David by hisarchaeological theories,for Praxiteles too, whenhe carved the marble,strove to suggest the ten-derness of flesh and thelimpidity of the glance. Inhis moon-silvered mists,Prudhon achieved thatvoluptuous softness whichGirodet attempted to pro-duce by eccentricities ofillumination (Figs. 672-. FIG. 671. THE TRIUMPH OF MARAT. (Museum of Lille.) 319 ART IN FRANCE
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