Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 134
anvas theform and spirit of the history which was weaving itself aroundthem, more especially as they might flatter themselves that, indepicting any phase of the grand reign, they were at onceobeying the instincts of patriotism, and assuring their ownimmortality. The school of Vouet had trained up a… … CHAPTER II. THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV.(1650-1700.) THE tendency of French painting to depend too exclusivelyon royal patronage had, as we have seen, steadily beengaining ground from the first, but with the extraordinary personalascendancy of Louis XIV. it gains additional strength, and assumesa definite…
Painting, Spanish · Painting, French
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