Art Review - Artist in Retreat - ‘Late Renoir’ in Philadelphia - NYTimes.com

Art Review - Artist in Retreat - ‘Late Renoir’ in Philadelphia - NYTimes.com: "“I am of the 18th century,” he said, thinking of Rococo masters like Watteau and Boucher. He pulled back from his Impressionism, way back. He underwent a revolution in reverse, a personal return to order, and to an order he’d never really left behind.
Timing was a factor in this shift. By the mid-1880s he was starting a family. He was also traveling and catching up on art history. Raphael in Rome knocked him flat, as did Velázquez in Spain. Back home at the Louvre he re-experienced the Baroque of Poussin and Rubens. Greek sculpture hit like a depth charge."