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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1838. Excerpt: ... fanaticism, abundantly indicate the beauty of those more considerable works we have lost. Seven or eight Greek Christian compositions were mentioned in a former lecture, as having been standards to the Italian painters, from which they scarcely ventured to deviate for ages, viz., The creation of Adam and of Eve, the Nativity, * the Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Glorification, the Last Judgment, * with some others, which amply prove that the sacred flame remained in Greece which kindled light and life in the modern arts of Western Europe. Grecian composition may be traced in the biblical basso-relievos of Orvieto by Nicolas and John Pisani; in the noble bronzes of the life of Christ on the pulpits of St. Lorenzo in Florence, by Donatello; on the bronze gates of St. John's Baptistery, in the same city, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, and in the paintings of Raphael and Michael Angelo. X] The Greek poets conducted their works on a: plan of composition which equally governs painting and sculpture. Homer's Iliad is a whole, united in its parts by connection, and varied by gradation. The sentiment throughout is wrath, beginning with the dissension of the kings, continued by the * See Plates II. XXXV. XXXVI. f Plate XXXIX. vengeance of the Trojans, and ended by the destruction of Troy's hope and bulwark in the death of Hector. The characters have a varied individuality. Achilles is the hero, who, like the sun, enlightens and heats all by the blaze of his presence; his absence is darkness and dismay. There is the same unity in connection and gradation of characters and circumstances to be found in the Prometheus of DEGREESEschylus. Vulcan, Force and Strength; Mercury, Ocean, and the Nymphs are but contingents to the adamantine spirit of Prometheus, whom the threats of Jupiter cou
| ISBN-13 | 9781150354816 |
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| ISBN-10 | 115035481X |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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