Volume 26, Number 18 · November 22, 1979
The Permanent Revolution
By Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner
Romanticism
by Hugh Honour
Harper & Row, 415 pp., $25.00
In 1849 the young sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who was later to execute the famous group La Danse for the façade of the Paris Opera, regretfully abandoned his studies with François Rude, the greatest of French romantic sculptors (and a major figure in Hugh Honour's Romanticism). Carpeaux went to work with Francisque Duret, a less inspired teacher, but one much more representative of the doctrines of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He gave the reasons for his break with Rude in a letter to a friend:[1]
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