This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...in appropriate italics.) Alluding to the renaissance of the Christian School in Germany--" Not produced by vulgar admiration of brutal reality, but rather by exaggerating the idea, the dream, at the expense of the form; of the poetry, at the cost of the execution," he calls the contrary tendency now exhibited in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...in appropriate italics.) Alluding to the renaissance of the Christian School in Germany--" Not produced by vulgar admiration of brutal reality, but rather by exaggerating the idea, the dream, at the expense of the form; of the poetry, at the cost of the execution," he calls the contrary tendency now exhibited in the French School, " a new theory destructive of all art, by the exorbitant pretension of liberating it from every rule, from every idealization. The Exposition Universelle finds the new school of the Trivial rising up on the field of battle, protesting, by its tendencies and its works, against all the illustrations of modern art: denying art, genius, inspiration, poesy to hold to an impossible ' caique' of Keality." There is no doubt that the Count was a representative critic; or that the followers of Overbeck (who boasted that he never used a model) had no place in their minds for Meissonier. M. Meissonier elected to be represented at the Universal Exhibition by four small panel paintings, La Ittze, the Bravos, La Lecture chez Diderot, and the Skittle Players (Joueurs de Boule sous Louis XV.), all of which have been already alluded to. I will, however, insert here an interesting description of the Diderot picture, from the pen of Mr. Charles Blanc. It appeared in a fenilleton of the " Temps," in 1867. "On a canvas of a few centimetres, he presents us with a whole group of philosophers of the seventeenth century; amongst whom we seem to recognize Baron Holbach, Grimm, DAIembert, and Diderot himself, with his friendly figure, his eye so prompt to brighten with the fire of genius. In the attitudes and expressions of the reader and his hearers, the degree of attention is marked in each. Diderot stands in the foregrou...
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