JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET
hood, their unconscious expressions, their individualities which say nothing, but feel themselves overburdened by life, or suffer patiently without cries or complainings, undergoing the human law without even having an idea of asking satisfaction from any body. These men did not produce an art of revolt like ours today." Fra Angelico "gave him visions." But of all the Italians of the fifteenth century, the one who seems to have moved him most deeply is the harsh and tragic Mantegna. "Masters of his kind have an incomparable power. They throw in your face the joys and sorrows that possess them."[1]
Beside this great Italian school of the fifteenth century, he gave a place in his admiration, to the great French School of the seventeenth century: Le Brun and Jouvenet
- ↑ He had also a great predilection for Spanish primitives, like Greco, who in his day was very little known. He had a picture by him hanging in his room near his bed and used to look at it with emotion in his last illness. He said: "I know few pictures which touch me, I will not say more, but so much; a man must have had a great deal of feeling to paint a thing like that."
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