This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Of artist6, in the history of men of literary genius.--Their habits and pursuits analogous.--The nature of their genius is similar in their distinct works. -- Shown by their parallel aeras, and by a common end pursued by both. Artists and literary men, alike insulated in their studies, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Of artist6, in the history of men of literary genius.--Their habits and pursuits analogous.--The nature of their genius is similar in their distinct works. -- Shown by their parallel aeras, and by a common end pursued by both. Artists and literary men, alike insulated in their studies, pass through the same permanent discipline; and thus it has happened that the same habits and feelings, and the same fortunes, have accompanied men who have sometimes unhappily imagined their pursuits not to be analogous. Let the artist share The palm; he shares the peril, and dejected Faints o'er the labour unapproved--alas ! Despair and genius !-- The congenial histories of literature and art describe the same periodical revolutions and parallel aeras. After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. In tin. history of painting, after the splendid epoch of Raphael, Titian, and Corregio, we meet with pleasure the Carraccis, Domenichino, Guido, and Albano; as we read Paterculus, Quintilian, Seneca, Juvenal, and Silius Italicus, after their immortal masters, Cicero, Livy, Virgil, and Horace. It is evident that Milton, Michael Angelo, and Handel, belong to the same order of minds; the same imaginative powers, and the same sensibility, are only operating with different materials. Lanzi, the delightful historian of the Storia Pittorica, is prodigal of his comparisons of the painters with the poets; his delicacy of perception discerned the refined analogies which for ever unite the two sisters, and he fondly dwelt on the transplanted flowers of the two arts: " Chi sente che sia Tibullo nel poetare sente chi sia Andrea (del Sarto) nel dipingere;" he who feels what Tibullus...
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