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XXIV.—GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOM...
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II.—FEMALE ARTISTS. BY AN ITALIAN.
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Xxiv.—Gallery Of Illustrious Italian Wom...
XXIV . —GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN .
Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
II . —FEMALE ARTISTS . BY AN _ITALIAN .
In order that art may manifest itself in all its grandeur , andibecome
a means of social progress , two things are requisite , individual conthe sciousness instruments and re or lig agents ious faith b .. which Art , men philosop strive hy , and differen science t p , at hs
y , , to attain the goal of human life—the good . Philosophy and science seek to attain their end by means of truth ; art by means
an of beauty ob h jec man t , . it Now ossesses canno , beaut t b th e y reveale being conscious d the sa n v determination e in of his his ow torica n of individua the l perio ideal d lit in in y
w oras German p philosophers " would say , of his own subjectivity . , But , the ideal comes to the artist through religion alonewhich
, constitutes the highest manifestations of thought , because it foreshadows a future historical epoch . From religionas from a source ,
, p roceeds d the civ successive ilization re ; l from iions each as reli a whole gion its particular resent th civilization e successive ; p
forms and aspects of universal g , civilization . , Quinet says truly , _" that before the relig tr ion uth the has is birth too just long of the modern been reverse cons institutions . idered Christianity the ; resu the lt existed Gospel of politics in came B , ethl whereas before ehem
Bactriana the Sinai Papacy before before ; the the king the Koran dom political of before Judea development the ; the Cali revelations phate of Persia ; the of priesthood in Zoroaster Susa and in of
gressive Persepolis affirmation . " ( 1 ) And of each the relations religion being of human the symbolical beings with and each
proits other laws , with are the practised world , and by faith with — God that , its is do b ctrines y sentiment are accepted vivified , and by
functions fantasy . b Sentiment means of and which fantasy the artist then , rises , are to the the two intuition psycholog of ical the y
idealwhich he knows how to discern and deduce from the religious , symbol Therefore , and to we invest began with by realit saying y . that true artsocial artis born
of the union , of individual consciousness and relig , ious faith . , Twice only in human history has art reached this point— -in ancient Greece ,
and in modern Italy ; from Polignoto to Phidias , from Giotto' to ther ( 1 ) writers Quinet , Genie tlie hilosop des Reli h g of ions historv -Preface has demonstra Yico , "before ted that Q , uinet the earliest all
was cus o toms Divine were Rig on all ht impregnated , that p divine y with were religion the , first and governments piety ; that , the the first first written right the first of certitudethe first
no charac tion ters of , rig the ht first and j wrong urisprudence ious , and JPrinei tha , t these di JScienza existed ground in the first , historical
moment which was relig . pJYuova _, . IV *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/16/
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