Phrenology Applied to Painting And Sculpture
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In the history of Italian art he stands alone, like 106 ox THE HEAD AND CHARACTER OF RAPHAEL.
Shakspeare in the history of our literature ; and he takes the same kind of rank, a superiority not merely of degree, but of quality. Everybody has heard of Eaphael, every one has attached some associations of excellence and beauty, more or less defined, to that familiar name : but it is necessary to have studied profoundly the history of art, and to have an intimate acquaintance with the productions o...f contemporary and succeeding artists, to form any just idea of the wide and lasting influence exercised by this harmonious and power- ful genius. His works have been an inexhaustible store- house of ideas to painters and to poets. Everywhere in art we find his traces. Everywhere we recognise his forms and lines, borrowed or stolen, reproduced, varied, imitated — never improved. Some critic once said, ' Shew me any sen- timent or feeling in any poet, ancient or modern, and I will shew the same thing either as well or better expressed in Shakspeare ;' in the same manner one might say, ' Shew me in any painter, ancient or modern, any especial beauty of form, expression, or sentiment, and in some picture, drawing, or print after Eaphael, I will shew you the same thing as well or better done, and that accomplished which others have only sought or attempted.' To complete our idea of this rare union of greatness and versatility as an artist with all that could grace and dignify the man, we must add such per- sonal qualities as very seldom meet in the same individual — a bright, generous, genial, gentle spirit ; the most attrac- tive manners, the most winning modesty — ' His heavenly face the mirror of his mind ; His mind a temj^le for all lovely things To flock to, and inhabit ;' — and we shall have a picture in our fancy more resembling that of an antique divinity, a young Apollo, than a real human being.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In the history of Italian art he stands alone, like 106 ox THE HEAD AND CHARACTER OF RAPHAEL.
Shakspeare in the history of our literature ; and he takes the same kind of rank, a superiority not merely of degree, but of quality. Everybody has heard of Eaphael, every one has attached some associations of excellence and beauty, more or less defined, to that familiar name : but it is necessary to have studied profoundly the history of art, and to have an intimate acquaintance with the productions o...f contemporary and succeeding artists, to form any just idea of the wide and lasting influence exercised by this harmonious and power- ful genius. His works have been an inexhaustible store- house of ideas to painters and to poets. Everywhere in art we find his traces. Everywhere we recognise his forms and lines, borrowed or stolen, reproduced, varied, imitated — never improved. Some critic once said, ' Shew me any sen- timent or feeling in any poet, ancient or modern, and I will shew the same thing either as well or better expressed in Shakspeare ;' in the same manner one might say, ' Shew me in any painter, ancient or modern, any especial beauty of form, expression, or sentiment, and in some picture, drawing, or print after Eaphael, I will shew you the same thing as well or better done, and that accomplished which others have only sought or attempted.' To complete our idea of this rare union of greatness and versatility as an artist with all that could grace and dignify the man, we must add such per- sonal qualities as very seldom meet in the same individual — a bright, generous, genial, gentle spirit ; the most attrac- tive manners, the most winning modesty — ' His heavenly face the mirror of his mind ; His mind a temj^le for all lovely things To flock to, and inhabit ;' — and we shall have a picture in our fancy more resembling that of an antique divinity, a young Apollo, than a real human being.
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