Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 318
forty years later, for with Cabanel and Bouguereau Classi-cism has limped on, almost unchanged, to our own days. Its art was a correct, conventional picture-stencilling, which might just as well have flourished a generation earlier. Classi-cism—which in David was hard and Spartan, in Ingres cold… … Caz. des Beaux-Arts.ALEXANDRE CABANEL. 28o THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING naiads, as Aurora or Diana, into complete accord with the epoch whichproduced them. For Ingres the female body itself was the exclusive canon ofbeautiful form ; now the swelling limbs begin to stretch themselves voluptu-ously…
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