Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 227
! Dio-genes expelled from his philosophic tub could not have felt more uncomfortable i88 THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING than the German painters in presence of the Belgian pictures. As till thenthe incapacity to paint had been belauded as one of the strongest possibleproofs of the higher artistic… … CHAPTER IXTHE FORERUNNERS OF ROMANTICISM IN FRANCE IN France the first decade of the century gave no premonition of thepowerful development which was shortly to take place in French art.A legion of characterless pupils issuing from Davids studio wearied theworld with their aimless works, and hurled…
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