Art is considered by Emile Zola as one of the crucial values, as well in his life as in his work. It appears there in many different ways: practical (collecting paintings, friendship with artists) and theoretic (critical ...

The paper is devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the greatest French Romantic painter, who combines the “external cold” and the “inner fire”, as described by René Huyghe. An analysis of selected fragments of his Journal brings ...

Charles Nodier was one of the leading advocates of the fraternity of artists in the 1830s, but his experience of life and work in artistic circles embracing writers, painters and composers was not limited to his own literary ...