The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 289
han the rest. The in-sipid Gerard is more akin to Canovathan to his master: in his Cufid andPsyche he seems to prepare the way forthe sickly painters of the Second Em-pire. Girodet sought inspiration fromMacphersons Ossian, which NapoleonI. thought equal to the poems ofHomer; his painting, classic… … FIG. 520.—CORO.NATION OF NAPOLEON IN NOTKEDAME.DAVID. (The LouvTc.) rated Romanticism by his taste formodern subjects and his indifferenceto the Grseco-Roman tradition. Daviddisapproved and advised him to turnover the pages of Plutarch ; but Bru-tus and the Gracchi had had their day,in art as in…
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