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Then there's his brother George: 'Damn that fellow, knows eight or nine languages; yes, sir, nine languages, Arabic, Spanish, Greek, Ital And there's his wife, now, she and Mrs. Madison are always together. Mrs. Madison has taken a great fancy to her little daughter.
Claude has introduced the Flight of the Holy Family as a landscape group into nine different pictures. Ital. Il Riposo. Fr. Le Repos de la Sainte Famille. Ger. Die Ruhe in Ægypten. The subject generally styled a "Riposo" is one of the most graceful and most attractive in the whole range of Christian art.
Few towns in Italy developed as Rome herself developed, expanding from small beginnings in a slow continuous growth which was governed by convenience and opportunism and untouched by any new birth or systematic reconstruction. See Mommsen, Gesamm. Schriften v. 203; Nissen, Ital. Landeskunde ii. 27; Kornemann in Pauly-Wissowa, Encycl. iv. 520 foll.
C. Forsyth Major, 'Sur les Singes fossiles trouves en Italie: 'Soc. Ital. des Sc. At the period and place, whenever and wherever it was, when man first lost his hairy covering, he probably inhabited a hot country; a circumstance favourable for the frugiferous diet on which, judging from analogy, he subsisted.
He died as he had lived, universally beloved and respected by all who knew him; for, with the advantages of birth and fortune, he was humble and beneficent and employed his great riches, and the interest he possessed in the state, only to do good. Harris, I, 593. Forst. Voy. and Disc. p. 117. Modern Geogr. II. xvi. Ital Libr. p. iv. Mod. Geogr. II. xvi.
This agrees with what Vasari says, that his excellence lay in portraiture, for which reason he was summoned, after the battle of Ravenna, to paint the portrait of Caston de Foix, as he lay dead. Lat. Sancta Dei Genitrix. Virgo Deipara. Ital. La Santissima Vergine, Madre di Dio. Fr. La Sainte Vierge, Mère de Dieu. Ger. Die Heilige Mutter Gottes.
So we begin her history as the ancient artists have placed it before us, with that mingled naïveté and reverence, that vivid dramatic power, which only faith, and love, and genius united, could impart. Ital. La Leggenda di Sant' Anna Madre della Gloriosa Vergine Maria, e di San Gioacchino.
Like Ghirlandajo, Andrea has introduced portraits; and in the Florentine lady who stands in the foreground we recognize the features of his worthless wife Lucrezia, the original model of so many of his female figures that the ignoble beauty of her face has become quite familiar. Ital. La Presentazione, ove nostra Signora piccioletta sale i gradi del Tempio. Ger.
They are in Catholic countries the usual ornaments of charitable Institutions and convents of the Order of Mercy; and have, as I cannot but think, a very touching significance. Ital. La Madre di Dolore. L' Addolorata. Fr. Nôtre Dame da Pitié. La Vierge de Douleur. Sp. Nuestra Señora de Dolores Ger. Die Schmerzhafte Mutter.
To this we may add that no other painter has ever conceived Humanity with the same stately grandeur and in the same broad spirit. The confident strength of youth, the stern austerity of middle life, the resolute solemnity of old age these are his themes. Signorelli is, before all, the painter of the dignity of human life. Cavalcaselle e Crowe, viii. 424, etc. Ital. Forsch. ii. 333.
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