A Pedestrian Tour Through France and Italy (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...fine galleries of statuary and painting, by way of getting rid of them. I shall first succinctly notice some of the latter, referring to the Appendix for a more comprehensive enumeration. The First Apartment contains nothing very remarkable. In the second, observe a Magdalen, by Titian, delightfully painted; but still she weeps as if her grief were of the Ephesian kind. This picture seems to be the portrait, in fact, of some beautiful woman, with a tear or two sprinkled on each cheek, merely to give it an appropriation. Another fine painting, by the same great master, is the Finding Of Moses, which abounds in character, and is marked by prominent relief and micrometrical perspective. In the Third Apartment you find Domenichino's GuarDian Angel: an angel of ineffable sweetness of expression, depicting to the eye the beauty of holiness, protects with his shield an infant boy from the evil fiend; while the child, with clasped hands and an expression of devout confidence in the all-sufficiency of the succour, looks towards the throne of Omnipotence, to which the angel is directing his regards. Over a Magdalen, by Guercino, observe an Infant Asleep, surrounded with the emblems of our Saviour's passion, by Guido. The Cabinet.--This little cabinet is appropriated to paintings of mythological subjects, some of which are treated in a manner not the most favourable to delicacy. Among these are Titian's celebrated Danae; the B Cchante Della 238 THE STUDJ GALLERY OF THE PAINTINGS. Schiana of Caracei; Cupid Kissing His Mother, by Bronzino; and another of the same, copied in crayons by Michael Angelo; Diana And Pan, seated in a wood, with their limbs entwined in a manner not very becoming the immaculate virgin of the heathen mythology; and Hercules Between Virtue And Ple...