They are the disciples of art for art's sake. They are the race of obstinate dreamers for whom art has remained a faith and not a profession. The unknown Bohemians are a "great family of poor artists, fatally condemned to the law of incognito, because they cannot or do not know how to obtain a scrap of publicity, to attest there existence in art. Muger says that "Bohemia is a stage of artistic life it is the preface to the Academy, the Hotel Dieu, or the Morgue." But, there are several types of Bohemians. ![]() In short anyone who enters into an artistic career without any other means of livelihood than his art is a Bohemian. They are related to Homer, the minstrels and ballad makers of the middle age, figures like the poet Francois Villon, the artists of the Renaissance, like Michelangelo, Raphael, Cellini, Donatello, Titian and Veronese and then later Moliere and Shakespeare, Jean Jacques Rousseau and many more. ![]() In his preface Muger defines what Bohemians are. La Boheme is an opera based on excerpts from the novel by Henri Muger called Bohemians of the Latin Quarter.
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