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Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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after his death they w^ere bought by the State, and continue to this day to beexhibited in the house once occupied by the painter, and where they were shown by him inhis lifetime—a true Chamber of Horrors. Here we may still see the Thoughts and Visionsof a Head cut off by the Gruillotine, Hunger, Madness, and Crime, Buried Alive, TheSuicide, A Scene in Hell—Napoleon in hell surrounded by the hosts slain in his wars!—these, together with the big canvases: Combat of the Greeks and Trojans over the Bodyof Patroclus, The Revolt of Hell against Heaven, Polyphemus Devouring the Companionsof Ulysses, and The Triumph of Christ, and it must be admitted that even to-day theMusee Wiertz is considered by visitors an attraction not to be despised, even in competitionwith the rich stores of the Museum of Painting. The reaction that was inevitable against the extravagances of the time came with the aj:)-pearance of Louis G-allait, although even with him it was rather in his way of painting and
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o I < 1-z u g CO mI- 5 O zI- t < Q. CO IE o zo I HCO< u I H ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 303 in the sobriety of his design, than in his choice of subject that the contrast was felt. Gallaitat first gave himself to the study of law, but finding himself drawn more strongly to art, heentered the academy of his native Tournay, at that time under the direction of Hennequin,a pupil and follower of David, but who recognized the talent of his pupil, and when on theappearance of his first picture—a purely academic rendering of The Tribute Money —whichtook the prize of the year, certain envious persons whispered that Gallait had been assistedby his master, Hennequin advised his pupil to leave Tournay for Antwerp. Here Gallaitentered the Academy, and while pursuing his studies gave all the time he could spare to theworks of Rubens and his school. He made such progress that in 1833 he produced his Christ Healing the Blind, which was at once bought by the city of Tournay and iDlaced i

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