BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Amorini, _Vita del celebre pittore Francesco Primaticcio_; Berger, _Histoire de l'Ecole Francaise de Peinture au XVII^{me} Siecle_; Bland, _Les Peintres des fetes galantes, Watteau, Boucher, et al._; Curmer, _L'OEuvre de Jean Fouquet_; Delaborde, _Etudes sur les Beaux Arts en France et en Italie_; Didot, _Etudes sur Jean Cousin_; Dimier, _French Painting in XVI Century_; Dumont, _Antoine Watteau_; Dussieux, _Nouvelles Recherches sur la Vie de E. Lesueur_; Genevay, _Le Style Louis XIV., Charles Le Brun_; Goncourt, _L'Art du XVIII^{me} Siecle_; Guibel, _Eloge de Nicolas Poussin_; Guiffrey, _La Famille de Jean Cousin_; Laborde, _La Renaissance des Arts a la Cour de France_; Lagrange, _J. Vernet et la Peinture au XVIII^{me} Siecle_; Lecoy de la Marche, _Le Roi Rene_; Mantz, _Francois Boucher_; Michiels, _Etudes sur l'Art Flamand dans l'est et le midi de la France_; Muntz, _La Renaissance en Italie et en France_; Palustre, _La Renaissance en France_; Pattison, _Renaissance of Art in France_; Pattison, _Claude Lorrain_; Poillon, _Nicolas Poussin_; Stranahan, _History of French Painting_. EARLY FRENCH ART: Painting in France did not, as in Italy, spring directly from Christianity, though it dealt with the religious subject. From the beginning a decorative motive--the strong feature of French art--appears as the chief motive of painting. This showed itself largely in church ornament, garments, tapestries, miniatures, and illuminations. Mural paintings were produced during the fifth century, probably in imitation of Italian or Roman example. Under Charlemagne, in the eighth century, Byzantine influences were at work. In the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries much stained-glass work appeared, and also many missal paintings and furniture decorations. [Illustration: Fig. 56.--POUSSIN. ET IN ARCADIA EGO. LOUVRE.]