Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 291
is lyre by the edge of the sea, andshepherd calls to shepherd to come and hear his song. Thegods are there, they commune with men; and the shepherdParis gives the apple to the goddess of his choice, with thedire results of which the song of Homer told. The oldstories cannot die. They arose out of… … PAINTING IN FRANCE 227 telling than merely tap on the school satchel. The storyand the landscape are completely unified by art; each notmerely does no injury to, but explains and exalts the other. In such pictures as these, Realism, and some measure, atleast, of Impressionism, unite with a lofty…
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