ubjects in literature and history. Their artwas redolent of cultivation, they painted anecdotes,but they chose their anecdotes with skill and taste,and they narrated the detail of picturesque eventswith eloquence. Mr. Brownell has said of them asa class that to lament their lack of poetry is to… … Courtesy of nuranJRiielTHE GOOSE OIRL would call //(•//)/ Kiin.sl; they found their subjectsclose at hand, painted the fields and forests at theirown doors, and the peasants at their work. More-over, they gave their painting the character of por-traiture, seeking the significance of…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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