Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 464
al dAmboise, of Da Vinci atthe solicitation of Louis XII., and the foundation of theschool of Fontainebleau by Rosso and Primaticcio, mark theeclipse of whatever schools of French painting were thenexisting, for the grand manner and dramatic power of the M. Lafenestrc, the Director of the Louvre,… … THE LOUVRE 311 Italians, fostered by royal patronage, carried all before them.Of Rosso, known to the French as Maitre Roux, theLouvre has a Pieta and a classical subject—The Challenge ofthe Pierides (Nos. 1485 and i486). Primaticcio is repre-sented by some admirable drawings. But the sterility…
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