Renaissance Fancies and StudiesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896 - 258 pages |
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Page 115 - ... young men in velvets and brocades, solemn women with only the glory of their golden hair and flesh, seated in the grass, old men looking on pensive, children rolling about; the solemnity of great, spreading trees, of greenish evening skies; the pathos of the song about to begin or just finished, with lute or viol or pipe still lying hard by. Of such pictures it is best, perhaps, not to speak. The suggestive imagination is wandering vaguely, dreaming ; fumbling at random sweet, strange chords...
Page 27 - Noè, acciocché la spezie vostra non venisse meno; ancora gli siate tenuti per lo elemento della aria, che egli ha diputato a voi; oltre a questo, voi non seminate, e non mietete; e Iddio vi pasce, e davvi...
Page 137 - THE TUSCAN SCULPTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE WE are all of us familiar with the two adjacent rooms at South Kensington which contain, respectively, the casts from antique sculpture and those from the sculpture of the Renaissance; and we are familiar also with the sense of irritation or of relief which accompanies our passing from one of them to the other. This feeling is typical of our frame of mind towards various branches of the same art, and, indeed, towards all things which might be alike, but happen...
Page 26 - Signore, per frate focu, per lo quale ennallumini la nocte: ed ello è bello et iocundo et robustoso et forte. Laudato si', mi...
Page 113 - Mars, armed capd-pie like a mediaeval warrior ; the delicate Mercurius, a beautiful page-boy stripped of his emblazoned clothes ; Luna dragged along by two nymphs ; and Venus daintily poised on one foot on her dove-drawn chariot, the exquisite Venus in her clinging veils, conquering the world with the demure gravity and adorable primness of a high-born young abbess.
Page 55 - ... has also an infinitely finer psychological sense than Boccaccio. Indeed, this little novel ought to be reprinted, like ' Aucassin et Nicolette,' as one of the absolutely satisfactory works, so few but so exquisite, of the Middle Ages. " It is the story of the relations of Jesus with the family of Lazarus, whose sister Mary is here identified with the Magdalen ; and it is, save for the account of the Passion which forms the nucleus, a perfect tissue of inventions. Indeed, the novelist...
Page 74 - ... further realization of detail ; and that at this moment consequently there originated such pictorial indications of the chief dramatic situations as concerned the Christian world. And secondly, that from then and until well into the sixteenth century, the whole attention of artists was engrossed in changing the powers of indication into powers of absolute representation, developing completely the drawing, anatomy, perspective, color, light and shade, and handling, which the Giottesques had possessed...
Page 112 - Tannhauser so infinitely more delightful than the paramour of Adonis ; that charm which, when we meet it occasionally in literature, in parts of Spenser, for instance, or in a play like Peele's " Arraignment of Paris," is so peculiarly rare. These early painters have made up their paganism for themselves, out of all pleasant things they knew; their fancy has brooded upon it ; and the very details that make us laugh, the details coming direct from the Middle Ages, the spirit in glaring opposition...
Page 26 - Signore, per sora luna e le stelle: in celu l'ai formate clarite et pretiose et belle. Laudato si', mi' Signore, per frate vento et per aere et nubilo et sereno et onne tempo per lo quale a le tue creature dài sustentamento. Laudato si', mi' Signore, per sor'aqua, la quale è multo utile et humile et pretiosa et casta. Laudato si', mi...
Page 255 - Eenaissance matters — had been significantly similar to that of his own Marius. He began as an aesthete, and ended as a moralist. By faithful and self-restraining cultivation of the sense of harmony, he appears to have risen from the perception of visible beauty to the knowledge of beauty of the spiritual kind, both being expressions of the same perfect fittingness to an ever more intense and various and congruous life.