epresentation of contemporary life was considered "low" and rig'orously proscribed. Having placed its ideal in the past, and having- admitted that the perfect model of the Beautiful had been found, the School was only logical in taking the view that any art not based upon this ideal must be… … CLAUDE MONKT CuL'RCH AT Vernon possessed a sound logic; and, in fact, though its logic is based upon a false principle, it is deduced with the astounding rigour of the reasoning of that epoch. As the Greek ideal was essentially sculptural, the School of painting saw it through the medium of Raphael…
Painters · Painting, French
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