Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 32
; groups of inhabitants have rushed for-ward to meet him and fall on their knees imploring his protec-tion; on the right, a young girl, half-naked, her blonde hairfalling around her, weeps beside her dead mother; on the leftan old man, surrounded by his family, extends his arms be-seechingly… … SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE I3 gradual decline, if not exactly of Delacroixs reputation, yetcertainly of his popularity, may be traced. Now that thedin of battle between the modified Raphaelesque Classicismof Ingres and the passionate, imaginative Romanticism ofDelacroix has so long died out, critics…
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