Ètienne-Jean Delécluze

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Ètienne-Jean Delécluze

French critic

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Thus, for example, French critic Étienne-Jean Delécluze was a supporter of the “Homerists,” followers of Ingres’s style, and deplored the “école du laid” (“school of ugliness”) of the “Shakespeareans,” who emulated Delacroix. But this debate would become moot with the development of the avant-garde.
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Thus, for example, French critic Étienne-Jean Delécluze was a supporter of the “Homerists,” followers of Ingres’s style, and deplored the “école du laid” (“school of ugliness”) of the “Shakespeareans,” who emulated Delacroix. But this debate would become moot with the development of the avant-garde.
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