. Art in France. in.. 70y.—UAVIU UANOliKS. PLUIMI.M ( a- TH K IANTHE IN, PARIS. to a victorious general, a scholar, an inventor or an artist; the historyof France was exploited by sculptors as it had been by painters inthe galleries of Versailles. The Revolution, the Empire, the ageof Louis XIV, the Renaissance, and even the Middle Ages, in-spired innumerable figures. The artist who played the most important part in this nationalwork was David dAngers (1788-1856). A Jacobin and a Clas-sicist, like his namesake, the painter of the Sabine women andMarat, he was passionately devoted to the antiqu
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. Art in France. in.. 70y.—UAVIU UANOliKS. PLUIMI.M (_a- TH K IANTHE IN, PARIS. to a victorious general, a scholar, an inventor or an artist; the historyof France was exploited by sculptors as it had been by painters inthe galleries of Versailles. The Revolution, the Empire, the ageof Louis XIV, the Renaissance, and even the Middle Ages, in-spired innumerable figures. The artist who played the most important part in this nationalwork was David dAngers (1788-1856). A Jacobin and a Clas-sicist, like his namesake, the painter of the Sabine women andMarat, he was passionately devoted to the antique, and violently agitated by the po- ^ , litical fury of his of modern life agi-His work is in-. Fio. 770.—nwiD dANCERS. MEDAl.l.lOF VICTOR HUGO. Kll.. 772.—UAMt)N<;ERS. MFOAMIHN•y MMF. RElAMIKR. 771. DAVID DANC.ERS.UKOIOT, AT NANCY. (Photo. Neurdcin.) formed with an dkoiot, at nvwv. energv unparal- 1 1 I I r I • (Photo. Neurdctn.) • a • •» , J leled before him, in tfiemes imitated from the Laocoon and the Belvedere Apollo. In his pedimentof the Pantheon (Fig. 769), France, supported by Liberty andHistory, distributes crowns of immortality, and on either side, schol-ars, artists, jurists, generals, Bonaparte and his grenadiers, hold 366 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD out their hands to receive them. In this tri-angle David summarised the glorification inwhich all France was interested. He carveda long series of statues of great men, andwith a few exceptions—Racme at La FerteMilon, for instance—he clothed them boldlyin modern costume. On a pedestal, the carvedsides of which tell of glorious achievementsor proclaim symbolically the benefits of aninvention, there is ra