The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 279
ls the moralregenerators of art. According toDiderot, it is not enough that art shouldbe decent; he required that it shouldpreach the domestic virtues, benevo-lence, sensibility. Simon Chardin wasan excellent painter, akin to the Dutchnaturalists, though more refined thanthey, who neither invited… … 260 riG. 502.—STATUE OF PETER THE GREAT.FALCONET. (St. Pelersburg.) Nature as we see her in the light ofday, and not in the glare of the opera-house (Figs. 493, 494). Greuze, onhis part, produced virtuous and senti-mental pictures, which seem barely tol-erable to-day. His Patcrml Curse, asermon in…
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