CHAPTER III

THE CLASSICAL REACTION IN GERMANY

The influence of the antique at the end of the eighteenth century shows no advance, but an unnatural retrograde movement, and notes in Germany the beginning of the same decadence which had happened in Italy with the Bolognese, in France with Poussin, and in Holland with Gérard de Lairesse.--The teachings of Winckelmann, Anton Rafael Mengs, Angelica Kauffmann.--The younger generation carries out the classical programme in the value it sets upon technical traditions.--Asmus Jacob Carstens.--Buonaventura Genelli 80

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