. Art in France. FIG. 874.— OF HEILBLTH. FIG. 875.— OF A WOMAN. 419 ART IN FRANCE. ilG. Syb. BONNAT. PORTRAIT llF CARDINAL LAVIOERIE. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) At the Sorbonne, such poetrybreathes from the Sacred Grove inwhich Letters and Science conversethat these allegories lose their scho-lastic coldness, and participate indivine life and Elysian serenity (). Other landscapes exhale thepoetry of past ages. At Lyons, theradiant paganism of Greece, and theFranciscan soul of Umbria. In thePantheon, Puvis illumines SaintGenevieves childhood with thewhite radi
. Art in France. FIG. 874.— OF HEILBLTH. FIG. 875.— OF A WOMAN. 419 ART IN FRANCE. ilG. Syb. BONNAT. PORTRAIT llF CARDINAL LAVIOERIE. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) At the Sorbonne, such poetrybreathes from the Sacred Grove inwhich Letters and Science conversethat these allegories lose their scho-lastic coldness, and participate indivine life and Elysian serenity (). Other landscapes exhale thepoetry of past ages. At Lyons, theradiant paganism of Greece, and theFranciscan soul of Umbria. In thePantheon, Puvis illumines SaintGenevieves childhood with thewhite radiance of dawn, and showsus her old age in twilight and gather-ing night. The artless sweetness ofthe tone resuscitates the idyllic soulof the legend. This work, entirelymodern, seemed as old and as pene-trated with humanity as those relics which for generations have received the prayers of pilgrims. It per-petuates the presence of the saint. From the top of the sacred bull the guardian of Paris still watches over the city. (Figs. 884 887.)Puvis de Chavannes, by no means an impeccable artist, has created a un
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