French art, classic and contemporary, painting and sculpture (1901)
Brownell, W. C. (William Crary), 1851-1928 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 93
d the grand style, he had a truer feehng for the subtlerqualities of style itself All his works are linearly beautifuldemonstrations of his sincerity—his sanity indeed—in pro-claiming that drawing is the probity of art. With a few contemporary painters and critics, whose spe-cific penetration is… … iitt: NvKw Timi: Ai>:.v^r!, --SNOX[TIUEN FOUNDATTONS CLASSIC PAINTINGburst. But he belongs completely to the classic epoch. Neitherhe nor his refined and sympathetic pupil, Flandrin, did aughtto pave the way for the modern movement. Intimations of theshifting point of view are discoverable…
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