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Buonarroti, then, having compassion on the poor man and wishing to oblige him, went up to the picture with a piece of charcoal and outlined with a few strokes, lightly sketched in, a line of marvellous nude figures, which, foreshortened in different attitudes, were falling in various ways, some backward and others forward, with some wounded or dead, and all executed with that judgment and excellence that were peculiar to Michelagnolo.
I could not admire the Nelson Column, nor that which lends monumental distinction to the Duke of York. After Trajan's and that of the Place Vendome, each of which is a permanent and precious historical record, accounting sufficiently for its existence, there is something very unsatisfactory in these nude cylinders.
Yet who shall say that Raphael's power was on the decline, or that his noble style was passing into mannerism, after studying both the picture of the "Transfiguration" and the careful drawings from the nude prepared for this last work?
A frantic discarding of ornaments and the nude body of the dancer stood posturing naïvely, timidly. Therewith an end to mystery. The thing was known. It had happened during one of their walks. Leaden clouds over day-dark pavements. Warehouses, railroad tracks, factories a street toiling through a dismantled world. Their hands together, they paused and remained staring as if at a third person.
"Obey me promptly, sir, or, by God, I cashier you!" roared O'Hara, his raised lids laying nude the debauchery of those jaundiced juicy balls. "Be it so, Admiral Donald" the Treasurer bowed: "but on the understanding that I formally protest against the irregularity, and report it to the High Chancellor".
"There," he said to them when they had reached the doorstep, "run away to your mother very fine ride no! no more to-night! I'm aweary you understand aweary!" "Aweary awe-e-e-ary!" repeated the little things, standing before him in infantile nude rotundity, looking up with bright eyes. "Aweary that is it. Good night, Epaminondas good night, Xantippe! Give ye good hap, most stout Nestorius!"
Already, in England, he had made the discovery that he could, easily feel overdosed with such things. "Yesterday," he wrote in 1856, "I went out at about twelve and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. The plastic sense was not strong in Hawthorne; there can be no better proof of it than his curious aversion to the representation of the nude in sculpture.
Novices should take nude practice in empty birches, lest they spill themselves and the load of full ones, a wondrous easy thing to do. A birch canoe is the right thing in the right place. Maine's rivers are violently impulsive and spasmodic in their running.
If exercises are done in a nude condition the utmost freedom for the muscles is obtained. In a short time a notable change will be observed in the skin, which will lose its pasty appearance, and become soft flesh and of a healthy colour. If possible have the bedroom with windows facing the morning sun, so that the sunlight can also shine in.
He desired that art should remain the submissive handmaid of the Church and the willing servant of pure morality. While he denounced the heathenism of the style in vogue at Florence, and forbade the study of the nude, he strove to encourage religious painting, and established a school for its exercise in the cloister of S. Marco.
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