Wonders of Italian ArtC. Scribner, 1870 - 343 páginas |
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Página 306 - Fontano of Bologna and Tintoretto of Venice, counselled him to abandon the career of an artist, considering him incapable of ever succeeding in it; and his fellow-students called him " the ox," not because he was the son of a butcher, but on account of the slowness and heaviness of his mind, and also because of his continual, determined, and indefatigable application. He painted afterwards under Passignano at Florence ; at Parma he studied the works of Correggio and Parmigiano, and at Venice those...
Página 210 - Italians say, three orrisonti, — first these angels, then St. Sixtus and St. Barbara, and lastly the Madonna and Child, who are thus placed at a greater distance. When we understand this, we can appreciate all the merits of this composition. What symmetry and variety are to be found in it ! What noble attitudes ! In what wonderfully graceful positions are the Virgin and the Child in her arms ! And what ineffable beauty is there in everything that composes the group ! What could be more thoughtful,...