This literary movement inspired the paintings of Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes.
This literary movement inspired the paintings of Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes. Drawing their name from their journal published from 1866 to 1876, and their aesthetics from Gautier's concept of "art for art's sake," they preferred technically precise forms and Greco-Roman history as a subject. Members included José María Heredia, Théodore de Banville, François Coppée, Sully Prudhomme, a young Paul Verlaine, and their leader Charles Leconte de Lisle. For ten points, name this group of French poets who inspired the Symbolists and whose name ultimately derives from a mythological mountain.
This literary movement inspired the paintings of Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes.
{Parnassian} poets or Les {Parnassiens}