The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) by Richard Muther

CHAPTER XIX

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ITALY AND THE EAST Why painters sought their ideal in distant countries, though they did not plunge into the past.--Italy discovered by Leopold Robert, Victor Schnetz, Ernest Hébert, August Riedel.--The East was for the Romanticists what Italy had been for the Classicists.--France: Delacroix, Decamps, Prosper Marilhat, Eugène Fromentin, Gustave Guillaumet.--Germany: H. Kretzschmer, Wilhelm Gentz, Adolf Schreyer, and others.--England: William Muller, Frederick Goodall, F. J. Lewis.--Italy: Alberto Pasini 118