Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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g up between the two in Italy, and at bottom there is much in common in their pictures—leaving out of consideration those playful subjects drawn from the Northern mythology inwhich Bocklin really resembles no one. Feuerbach was born at Speyer, in 1829. After sometime spent in Diisseldorf under Schadow, and then at Munich with Rahl, he went to Paris andstudied with Couture. He theu made his way to Rome, and there gave himself up to the I So ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. study of the old Italian masters, and developed a style in which this influence is clearlymanifested while at the same time the sentiment of his pictures is as clearly his own. Thefirst picture that drew attention to his name was the one we copy— Dante with the NobleWomen of Ravenna. This was first exhibited at Carlsruhe, and afterward purchased bythe Grand Duke. It was destined for the Carlsruhe Museum, but the opposition of Lessing,at that time Director of the Museum, was so strong that the Grand Duke gave way, and
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DANTE AND THE NOBLE WOMEN OF RAVENNA. FROM THE PAINTING BY ANSELM FEUERBACH. retained the picture for his jirivate collection. Lessing was obstinately opposed to the newmovement in art making itself felt in the works of Feuerbach, Bocklin, and the rest of thosewho were striving to give expression to a romantic and idyllic art founded on the classictraditions of the Italian Renaissance, in opposition to the x>urely narrative and literary art ofthe Diisseldorf school represented by siich men as Lessing. Other subjects chosen byFeuerbach shoAv a similar leaning to serious and lofty themes, in which the treatment is indirect opposition to the spectacular and histrionic character of the art at that time the fashion ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. i8i in Germany. Feuerbacli rejects everything of an anecdotic or trivial nature, and translatestlie sentiment of his subject by simple lines and massive fonns, with the action reduced tothe least possible. In the Dante and the Noble Women of Raven

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