Word: sheepfold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years he has saved up his pennies, and now at last has accumulated a small flock of mortgaged sheep in the hills behind Orgosolo. One day, home from the grazing grounds, he finds three armed men in his hut and a huddle of stolen hogs in his sheepfold...
...Wolf in the Sheepfold. To their artistic differences, master and disciple then added political ones. David was a passionate partisan of the Revolution; Ingres seemed wholly indifferent to the comings and goings of monarchies, republics and empires. He painted Napoleon as First Consul and Emperor, and when the Bourbons came back, he painted them too. He did a portrait of Louis Phillipe's oldest son, and during the Second Empire he turned out more Napoleons...
...that great painter who has ruined every thing." He flatly refused to let his students even look at the Rubenses in the Louvre. When, years after Ingres was elected to the French Academy, Delacroix was also chosen. Ingres roared with indignation: "Now the wolf is loose in the sheepfold...