The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture Perspectives from the <i>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</i> (1861-81)

The aim of this paper is to show how French sculpture briefly resumed the impasse in which it was stuck middle nineteenth century thanks reliance on fifteenth-century Florentine sculpture. An analysis commentaries made by critics Gazette des Beaux-Arts , first journal assess and promote neo-Florentine sculptors 1860s 1870s, allows better grasp evolution failure trend, as well various issues that were at stake, such originality naturalism This revival provided art with a new generation successful inspiring works eventually lead unprecedented – short-lived triumph Exposition Universelle 1878.