The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 280
f THE ART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY the amiable and graceful art of theeighteenth century. He helped to crushBoucher, but was in his turn crushedby David, who drew no nice distinc-tions between sensual and sentimentalart, when neither was inspired byGreece and Rome. We must go backto raw antiquity,… … FIG. 503.—VOLTAIRE.HOUDON. (Theatre Franfais, Paris.) patriotic subjects (by which we mayunderstand subjects not taken fromPlutarch) should be forbidden to artists.The only branch of art which con-tinued to produce masterpieces in eigh-teenth-century France was portraiture.The pastellist La Tour…
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