The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 266
CENTURY ART IN FRANCE painter, and a servile and tyrannicalcourtier. Quinault wrote thus to him : Au siecle de Louis Ihcureux sort te fitnaitre.II lui fallait un pcintre, il te fallait unmaitrc. No satire could be more mordant thanthis eulogy. Although Le Brun showedsomething akin to genius in his… … nG. 477.—SHEPHERDS OF ARCADIA. N. POUSSIN. (The Louvre.) the official painter, under a regime wlienit was the function of art to glorifyabsolute power, to subserve and con-tribute to its pomp. For even art inthe seventeenth century was kept intutelage. Mazarin and Colbert foundedthe Academies of…
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