ed, if any- thing, only the petty, agreeable aspects. It was the same under the Consulate and the Empire. Even the art of gardening, which the French raised to so high a level, was only an outcome of the Italianized style, and not a single painter had the idea of making from the fairy-like aspects… … CLAUDE MONET The Pines might well be said that romanticism has revived French landscape painting after two centuries of slumber. Through its initiative a class of subject, so despised as to have become almost extinct, has grown into one of the most important of pictorial art. This reawakening of…
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