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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...period in Florence is intellectual, perhaps somewhat dry. The work of the best artists of this time is in general harsh and severe. There are no soft color effects but the greatest productions are masterpieces of construction and line work. The coloring is usually far from pleasing, it seems even as if the artists had tried to give crude color effects as increasing the severity of the composition...
...Every character has its own atmosphere, and as an actor divests himself of one personality and invests himself with the spirit of another, a sort of intellectual transmigration goes on. For Hamlet, Richard, Lear, or Iago, the true actor will not only change comparatively his voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given conditions and limitations, has so wide a choice of means that...
...temporary things of the world, such as houses and fine clothes, as all that can be found here; but Paul has found something more, something abiding forever, which cannot pass away. First he places faith. At once we are inclined to say this is not anything abiding or even anything real. Science, we say, recognizes no such thing as faith. But there we are wrong. The basis of all science is faith,- a trust in the natural laws, that as they have once acted, so they will always act. This cannot be proved, but we believe it. So are also...
...modern crities are altogether too apt to overlook the difficulties which the early painters had to encounter when they first started the Renaissance movement. People find fault with their pictures because they differ from modern paintings, but they do these old masters injustice to compare them with modern artists. Even if they are not understood now-a-days the Italians were skilful painters for the times in which they lived; in fact, one of the chief causes for this lack of appreciation is that the old masters worked under the inspiration of religion, while nature was a comparatively new field...
...formation of Raphael's style. Perigino, however, was the real forerunner of Raphael. His subjects are said to have bodies belonging to the Renaissance, but souls of the middle ages. His paintings are known for their grace of pose and the fervor of faith which they express. But even as early as Perigino the relgious inspiration was passing away, he painted faces just as he saw them in life, not as religious fervor would imagine them...