The Renaissance: the Revival of Learning And Art in the Fourteenth And ...
The Renaissance: the Revival of Learning And Art in the Fourteenth And ...
Philip Schaff
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His mind lived in a perpetual springtide. He was all beauty inside and outside. His beautiful soul shone from his countenance. The portraits, which present him as an infant, ^ *' Seine Geschichte ist in den vier Begriffen enthaUen : leben^ Hehen^ arbeiten undjung sterhen,^^ — Grimm, p. 87. ' Vasari calls him la gentilezza stessa^ which Grimm translates in half-English ; ** durck unddurch ein Gentleman,*^ Digitized by VjOOQIC Raphael, 83 youth, and man, are as characteristic and impressive as Gi...otto's Dante, and Guido Reni's Beatrice Cenci : once seen, they can never be forgotten. Such purity, delicacy, and sweetness seem to be angelic rather than human. *' His heavenly face the mirror of his mind, His mind a temple for all lovely things To flock to, and inhabit." Raphael was, like Goethe, singularly favored by fortune. He was free from the ordinary trials of artists — ^poverty, humiliation, and neglect. He lived like a prince in a palace near the Vatican and had a villa outside of the Porta del Popolo.
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