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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 277
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• • Impressions Of Rome, Herbert Florenc...
by b a screen or pul formed itson of the panels right of and marble left of net the -work choir . "which There are are said also to two be
in am form ones , like the p lieathen , Rostraand . from , one of , which the G-ospel was , always S . ! Lorenzo , read . and Similar in fact arrangements these two , churches are to were be seen more in interesting the Basilica to me of ;
than mosaic any , — others not meaning in , Home b . y , this In both the there mosaic are p exquisite ictures in specimens the vaults of marble of the
Tribunesor over the archeswhich are more curious than beautiful , but the tiful patterns candelabrum worked , out in S on . Clemente the , ambones . The and pavements altar , and of especiall these y churches on the beau , and - handsome in them
indeed of many of the Homan churches , are remarkably - , selves ; but persons who , on hearing of rich mosaic floors , expec in t to th
brilliant selves ex colors treme , ly will good be , but greatl time y disappointed has naturall . y left The traces patterns of its are work , — em the - hues have faded , and the stones are worn . "
The studios of Home are still the favorite resort of visitors . The criticism which Miss Sewell passes upon some of the works of art
which now adorn the International Exhibition has been endorsed " hy popular opinion .
" Modern one talks scul about pture it is and another very one l knows arge subject some one of who Roman dabbles _, interest in ifc Every every
Scul are to pture a barrister and the an excavations d classes , and seemed degrees to me to to an be Oxonian . in Home ; , they what formed law cases the
vap small id , talk yet it of is society a si , gn , and of the thoug charm h , as which which usual it , Rome they became possesses hav after in , above them a time the all rather other
lacesthat even the little nothings suggests e germs p as of re necessary all , y valuable apart information of sight-seeing . The as the studios Vatican are open or the to Cap every itol one ; an , d peop d are le
would are less be afraid heretical of g to iving criticise an op the inion A upon pollo , them but one than may upon fairl ancient y be allowed art . to It pass judgment upon Gibson ' s colored that statue admire of Venus them , or the Pandora Pandora . I
and scul believe especiall pture which I y . ; am it if I seems in wanting should the to minority not require woul like d in render a to delicacy say see ing the coloring of attemp taste I commonl t which a fatal must failure y introduced , — be . very A colored rare into ,
statue which , is not beautifu , l must be a monstrosity . It would be a representhat tation they , not are a suggestion suggestive . . But Pandora the charm is not in G a -ibson woman 's statues with a is flesh exactl -colored human y this ,
complexion and black eyes , but an exquisite creation of a being so ordinary is and _sfyed life over -like mortality her as to , th touch is at heir she one is Onl ' s felt sympathies to in be the as sweet , yet yet sorrow unsullied so ethereal of b her y in the most the evil lovel tint to which which face
. y y two can be other read very the foreboding perfect statues of the in consequences the studio of of Mr her . own Storey rashness , an American . I sawbilboth there careful
gentleman , —Cleopatra , and the Libyan Sy . In was a generall was observance surprised represented of to the see Egyptian how as a Greek extremel type and of y countenanc beautiful it is difficul they e t a , nd to could sty imag le be ine of . dress her Cleopatra anything , —and is I
taste else ; , generall but y the y Egyptian so destructive features of , beauty , and The the — low certainl bil ornamental y did wonderful not fillet in — this to an case earnest Eng in lish the
least detract from her charms . Sywas , —so , thoughtful beautiful , sorrowful —yet , — not so impressed in the least with according the weight to of any her regularl own powers y acknow , and
so led very ged type of "beauty ; exaggerate the features or the expression in the slightest degree , and she might be repulsive , even coarse . "
Yet to many there is inconsistency in representing' Cleopatra of
Notices Of Books. 277
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 277
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/61/
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