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Murder of Julius Cæsar was a work of art in white upon white, full of crude imagination, with white walls, white reflections of light, white togas, and dark red blotches of blood. His grass-eating
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Nebuchadnezzar proved that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is often only a step. Between times he painted archæological trifles for ladies of literary culture, such as the
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Battle of the Sparrows of 1890; but in his great
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Fall of Babylon he has proved once more what he can do. No doubt it is not a fine work: it is a mere decorative piece, but an astonishingly spirited performance. The scene is the palace of the Babylonian kings, the decorative construction of which the recovered monuments and the recent scientific investigations had rendered it possible to reproduce. Rochegrosse consulted with the zeal of an archæologist all the treasures of the Louvre and the British Museum,--Assyrian friezes, ornaments, and costumes,--and then set forth in these surroundings the famous banquet at which the Prophet Daniel explained the words
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Mene, Tekel, Peres.