CHAPTER XIX

ITALY AND THE EAST

Why painters sought their ideal in distant countries, though they did not plunge into the past.--Italy discovered by Leopold Robert, Victor Schnetz, Ernest Hébert, August Riedel.--The East was for the Romanticists what Italy had been for the Classicists.--France: Delacroix, Decamps, Prosper Marilhat, Eugène Fromentin, Gustave Guillaumet.--Germany: H. Kretzschmer, Wilhelm Gentz, Adolf Schreyer, and others.--England: William Muller, Frederick Goodall, F. J. Lewis.--Italy: Alberto Pasini 118