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Somebody administering the extreme unction to a victim of the Council of Ten? A priest stepping into a confessional at the Frari tomb of Canova in the distance, perspective of one of the naves, and so forth with his eye on a pretty devotee coming up to unburden her conscience? I've no patience with the follies people, think and say about Venice!" Florida stared in haughty question at the painter.
Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and such things, visited by us in Venice, I shall mention only one the church of Santa Maria dei Frari. It is about five hundred years old, I believe, and stands on twelve hundred thousand piles. In it lie the body of Canova and the heart of Titian, under magnificent monuments. Titian died at the age of almost one hundred years.
Gli Scalzi is a paragon of elaborate decoration. The church of the Frari, old and Gothic, is full of grand tombs, including those of several doges, that of Titian, and a monument to Canova. The Santa Maria della Salute has a fine collection of pictures over and above those in the church.
The famous epitaph, composed by Alfieri for himself, had been mangled by Mme. d'Albany and those who helped her and Canova in devising his tomb; the companion epitaph, the one in which Alfieri described the Countess as buried next to him, was also mangled in its adaptation to a tomb erected in Santa Croce, entirely separate from Alfieri's.
The latter days of the Pretender were spent in Rome and Florence. He married a Polish princess, and assumed the title of Duke of Albany. He never relinquished the hope of securing the English crown, and always retained his politeness and grace of manner. But he became an object of pity, not merely from his poverty and misfortunes, but also from the vice of intemperance, which he acquired in Scotland. He died of apoplexy, in 1788, and left no legitimate issue. The last male heir of the house of Stuart was the Cardinal of York, who died in 1807, and who was buried in St. Peter's Cathedral; over whose mortal remains was erected a marble monument, by Canova, through the munificence of George
"I have devoted much time to the study of the fine arts I have seen many statues I have frequently been in sculptors' studios; I prefer Stickleback to Canova." "I honour his moral elevation," observed Miss Hendy, "in stamping on eternal marble the femininity of the subject of his chisel." "I must really have the first view," whispered Mr Pitskiver. "Can't you remind him, Bristles?
His unending series of grandes passions was one unmistakable sign of this; another was his intense devotion to the Fine Arts. Though his taste in music and painting was the taste of his time the literary and sentimental taste of the age of Rossini and Canova he nevertheless brought to the appreciation of works of art a kind of intimate gusto which reveals the genuineness of his emotion.
She sat in a high-ceiled, white-walled room with French windows opening on a terrace where olea fragans blossoms expanded round the base of a statue by Canova. At last a feeling of incompleteness penetrated her languor. She rose to pace the mosaic floor on which appeared a design of mermaids and tritons. "What shall I do now? I must fill my life with something.
Pauline gave one great gasp and fainted dead away. As a matter of fact, her ears were not so bad. They were simply very flat and colorless, forming a contrast with the rosy tints of her face. But from that moment no one could see anything but these ears; and thereafter the princess wore her hair low enough to cover them. This may be seen in the statue of her by Canova.
Hortense's adorer conceived of groups and statues by the hundred; he felt strong enough to hew the marble himself, like Canova, who was also a feeble man, and nearly died of it. He was transfigured by Hortense, who was to him inspiration made visible. "Now then," said the Baroness to her daughter, "what does all this mean?"
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