Frederick A. Praeger Publishers | 1965 | English | 148 pages | PDF | 18.6 MB
According to a French art critic, Asselineau, it was in about 1840 that poetry was deposed by painting. The artist's profession was a happy one compared with that of the writer, in the view of the Brothers Goncourt. Music, too, which had played a leading role in the Romantic period, now became less important than painting