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Description: | This landscape is in keeping with the Neoclassical liking for all aspects of the Antiquity. It also draws on an earlier, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tradition of classical landscapes, which emerged as a reaction against the artificiality of Mannerism, and represented ideal landscapes with Italian architecture populated with mythological or Biblical characters. Here we have a very Neoclassical restraint, in a painting aiming at showing the virtues of Ancient Greece. The man making an offering to the statue of a god is a moral example. The composition is also well-balanced and elegant, devoid of human passions. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8985... | Go to resource |
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