A General And Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts Containing Explanati
A General And Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts Containing Explanati
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At Rome.
Two years after the death of Masaccio (namely, in 1445), was born Lionardo da Vinci, whose genius broke forth with a splendour which distanced former excel- lence : " made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of genius, favoured by education and circumstances, all ear, all eye, all grasp ; painter, poet, sculptor, anatomist, architect, engineer, chymist, machinist, musician, man of science, and sometimes empiric, he laid hold of every beauty in the enchanted circle, but w...ith- out exclusive attachment to one, dismissed in her turn each. Fitter to scatter hints than to teach by example, he wasted life, insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an ine- quality of fancy that at one moment lent him wings for the pursuit of beauty, and the next flung him on the ground to crawl after deformity : we owe him chiaro- scuro with all its magic, we owe him cari- cature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal ; — want of perseverance alone could make him abandon his cartoon destined for the great council chamber at Florence, of which the celebrated contest of horsemen was but one group ; for to him who could organize that composition, Michel Angiolo himself ought rather to have been an ob- ject of emulation tlian of fear : and that he was able to organize it, we may be cer- tain from the remaining sketch in the " Etruria Pittrice" lately published, but still more from the admirable print of it by Edelinck, after a drawing of Rubens, who was Lionardo's great admirer, and has done much to impress us with the beauties of his Last Supper, in the Refec- tory of the Dominicans at Milan, which he abandoned likewise without finishing the head of Christ, exhausted by a wild chase after models for the heads and hands of the apostles : had he been able to con- ceive the centre, the radii must have fol- lowed of course.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
At Rome.
Two years after the death of Masaccio (namely, in 1445), was born Lionardo da Vinci, whose genius broke forth with a splendour which distanced former excel- lence : " made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of genius, favoured by education and circumstances, all ear, all eye, all grasp ; painter, poet, sculptor, anatomist, architect, engineer, chymist, machinist, musician, man of science, and sometimes empiric, he laid hold of every beauty in the enchanted circle, but w...ith- out exclusive attachment to one, dismissed in her turn each. Fitter to scatter hints than to teach by example, he wasted life, insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an ine- quality of fancy that at one moment lent him wings for the pursuit of beauty, and the next flung him on the ground to crawl after deformity : we owe him chiaro- scuro with all its magic, we owe him cari- cature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal ; — want of perseverance alone could make him abandon his cartoon destined for the great council chamber at Florence, of which the celebrated contest of horsemen was but one group ; for to him who could organize that composition, Michel Angiolo himself ought rather to have been an ob- ject of emulation tlian of fear : and that he was able to organize it, we may be cer- tain from the remaining sketch in the " Etruria Pittrice" lately published, but still more from the admirable print of it by Edelinck, after a drawing of Rubens, who was Lionardo's great admirer, and has done much to impress us with the beauties of his Last Supper, in the Refec- tory of the Dominicans at Milan, which he abandoned likewise without finishing the head of Christ, exhausted by a wild chase after models for the heads and hands of the apostles : had he been able to con- ceive the centre, the radii must have fol- lowed of course.
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