Art history is a theory of emotions considered as knowledge of the human heart in the artist's; mind and as experience of tender emotions in the spectator's perception and enjoyment of paintings. The experience of beauty and the sublime enriches the emotional awareness of the spectator's. Stendhal's reflection about emotions in and via painting is used by the writer to compose his novels and the way in which in his novels he represents and expresses emotions in their connection with the actions, ideas, beliefs and action tendency of his major characters