| In recent years we are witnessing the renewal of the fresco. Tired of the shimmer of oil, several contemporary artists have taken over the methods of frescanti. Will any of them be the Twentieth Century Pinturrichio? It is premature to say it. But Baudouin and Pradelle, and Marret, but René Piot and Gaudissart, are valuable fresco artists.
Their example is spreading. Three excellent artists of the generation called Independents, MM. Dufrenoy, Girieud, and Lombard set themselves to the austere art of the quattrocentists. We already knew it by an article of the Fire. Here is a page (which we extract from the last issue of the Art de France) where our distinguished colleague Mr. Emmanuel de Urubert gives us interesting details on this Provencal attempt.
"Dufrénoy, Gireud and Lombard were reunited with Xavier de Magallon at Joachim Gasquet.It is not far from Aix, in the small village of Aiguille, that the poet receives his friends.He neighbors in this corner of Provence with Douglas Fitch The day when they went to see the Fitch, it happened that they missed the train for Aiguille, so that the next day they visited the lands of Pradines, and Douglas Fich consuitit them to the hermitage of Saint Pancrace which belongs to it.The hermitage is situated at the foot of the Luberon mountain.It stands among pines and cypresses.All around, the countryside is covered with wheat. there are green oaks, in front of the little church, an orchard of olive trees, in the extension of the apse, a cemetery with alignments of cypresses, in the middle of the tombs, a pyramid, which is the tomb of a young The little church is preceded by a narthex which gave to Dufrénoy, in Girieu d and Lombard three beautiful walls to paint. They decided to paint them in fresco. This is how the story of their workshop began (....). The three friends decided to paint three great moments of the New Testament: Girieud, the Nativity; Lombard, Sermont on the Mountain; Dufrenoy, the Descent from the Cross. (....) |