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neither horrible nor distressing . What they thought about it , 1 cannot tell ; but I never knew an old man and a boysilent so long together .
However , if the gentleman had been really a connoisseur , I should have picked up from him a good pound ' s worth of outlandish words in half the time . I only
heard from him these ; whether they related to either of the great pictures I cannot tell : — " Frate Bartolomeo far
excels all painters in the union of truth and majesty . His pencil has the power of Raphael ' s ; but I doubt whether he ever attained that idea of divinity in the human form , which dwelt within the breast
of Raphael at his earlier years , and which dropt from it at Rome . His Madonna della Seggiola , and some others , the most admired , are works indeed of consummate art , but abandoned by inspiration . Among
his frescoes we are in the presence of the Deity . " He said this not to his boy , as before , but to an artist , who winked at me , lifted up his eyebrows , and walked away . I am . &c .
MR STIVERS TO LADY C . Master will not return for some time , having taken it into his head that sea-bathing is good for him , and being quite sure that no gnat can bite him while he is under water . Here
then I have plenty of time upon my hands . Before I left the gallery the other day , I wished to know a little more of pictures , and to fill the re-
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mainder of my quire of papen for master . I should not boree you with cross and contradictory
opinions , if it were not that any friend might pause a littles in making an offer to the Granduke , in case he takes to his heels aorain . ( neeis again .
Well , I followed the youngj man into the long passage , andl went up to him , and gave himt back his wink , Intimacy followed .
" Would you believe it , " said he , " that old gentleman has lived in Italy near twenty years , and made several visits to the country before he came to fix his residence . He lias
passed several winters in Rome , and knows every picture there . But he never has conversed with us artists ; and though he reads books upon art , either he disregards or he forgets them . He uses the most whimsical
expressions when any of us goes up gravely to hear him talk , which it is not an easy thing to get him to do . The other day he said to Mr Greenholm , " ' Sir , Raphael , Frate Bartolomeo , and Mariotto
Albertinelh , form the rectangular triangle by which I measure the merits of an artist . Others may throw brighter colour ? upon canvas , but none posses
the same purity , the same truth , the same delicacy , the same grace , and the same power of accomplishing every thing they attempt . '
" And this , sir , he ventured to assert in the Tribuna itself , the room where we met , and where are three Correggios , a Michael- Angelo , and a Guido i
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High and Low Life in Ital y * 1833
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/39/
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