Identifier: cu31924014078004 (find matches)
Title: A short history of art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910 Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s inferior in characterisation to thesearching truth of Clouets. Yet in the decorative splendourof the latters composition it is possible to detect the Italianinfluence. Another instance of the Northern genius being fertilisedby the Italian is to be seen in the sculptor Jean Goujon,who has been mentioned already. He had before him theexample of Benvenuto Cellinis Nymph of Fontainebleau when he modelled his own Diana, a group in which the god-dess is reclining upon a stag, surrounded by her hounds.Her figure is nude and to some extent idealised; yet it stillpreserves a sort of impersonal naturalness, which renders theconception very superior to that of Cellini. The latter hastried to imitate the style of Michael Angelo, and succeeded 424 A SHORT HISTORY OF ART only in giving his figure a rather vulgar exuberance of formand turbulence of action. The point is, that the French genius, so far from suc-cumbing to foreign influence, tbok from it what it neededto complete its own development.
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DE LAEGILLIERE MARIE MARGUERITE LAMBERT DE THORIGNYAffected in sentiment but very decorative.

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