Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 137
d Saul into Paul. In1775 ^ien, on his appointment asdirector of the Roman Academy, hadtaken him to Italy as his best pupil,and hardly dreamt at that time thatthis young man would strike out on suchan entirely new path from his Romanstudies. He did not wait for theRevolution to be converted ; when… … THE CLASSICAL REACTION IN FRANCE 103 he was to go later. His Oath of the Horatii and his Brutus,both painted in Rome in 1784, proclaimed his programme. The little, rosy-loves, the doves of Venus, and all the charming frivolity and gallantry of rococo,
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