human
Fortune and the Child is a variation upon Titian's
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Divine and Earthly Love ; his
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Death of a Vestal Virgin a reminiscence of the
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Death of Peter Martyr ; his
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Warrior in the Opera House is the painted double of Rude's
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Marseillaise. How many gestures, attitudes, and figures could, by a close analysis, be shown to be borrowed in turn from Veronese, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, or Raphael! His works are a synthesis of the favourite forms of the Cinquecento; they are the testament of the Cinquecento masters. He was a Parisian Primaticcio, a posthumous member of the old school of Fontainebleau. In him was embodied the last smile of the Renaissance, the results of which he assimilated and reduced to formulæ. He lacked creative imagination, and his pictures are wanting in individual character. The nervous movement and sinewy stretchings of his young men's bodies would never have been painted but for Donatello's
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David. Of his women, the powerful and muscular are descended from Michael Angelo's
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Eve,