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Romantic Painting, Part VI

Mike G. on 12 31, 2009 | No Comments

Romantic Painting, Part VI

Rousseau carried the fundamental principle of the school farther than the others--with him interest, delight in, enthusiasm for nature became absorption in her. Whereas other men have loved nature,

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Romantic Painting, Part V

Mike G. on 12 31, 2009 | No Comments

Romantic Painting, Part V

Dupré and Diaz are the decorative painters of the Fontainebleau group. They are, of modern painters, perhaps the nearest in spirit to the old masters, pictorially speaking. They are rarely in the g

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Romantic Painting, Part IV

Mike G. on 12 30, 2009 | No Comments

Romantic Painting, Part IV

Delacroix's color deepens into an almost musical intensity occasionally in Decamps, whose oriental landscapes and figures, far less important intellectually, far less _magistrales_ in conception, ha

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Romantic Painting, Part III

Mike G. on 12 30, 2009 | No Comments

Romantic Painting, Part III

Géricault and Delacroix are the great names inscribed at the head of the romantic roll. They will remain there. And the distinction is theirs not as awarded by the historical estimate; it is person

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Romantic Painting, Part II

Mike G. on 12 30, 2009 | No Comments

Romantic Painting, Part II

The romantic painters were, however, by no means merely emotional. They were mainly imaginative. And in painting, as in literature, the great change wrought by romanticism consisted in stimulating t

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Romantic Painting, Part I

Mike G. on 12 30, 2009 | No Comments

Romantic Painting, Part I

When we come to Scott after Fielding, says Mr. Stevenson, "we become suddenly conscious of the background." The remark contains an admirable characterization of romanticism; as distinguished from cl

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