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English poet . An account of Manzoni ' s Adelchi concludes the volume . These latter articles are reprinted from the Kunst und Alterthum , a periodical work undertaken for the illustration of art and antiquity at the close of the poet's life . Vol . 39 contains fifteen essays on subjects appertaining to fine art . In our brief notice 6 f these , we must be directed less by their internal importance , than by the bearings they may have on our own literature and taste : and the useful hints which even our
summary may suggest . 1 . The pictures of Philostratus * Among the practical means adopted by Goethe to promote fine art , was the formation of the Weimar Society of the Friends of Art , * Gesellschaft der Kunstfreunde , in the name of which prizes were offered , and annual exhibitions of paintings &c , established , From this body proceeded the Propylaen , already spoken of . Pursuing a hint thrown out by Winkelmann , he suggested to young artists subjects painted by
Polygnotus , and the society proposed publishing engravings , from drawings to be made from descriptions of Philostrates , of which this is an arranged catalogue , illustrated by critical remarks , extended to modern works and artists . It gives us pleasure to remark , that the seed struck root , having , since we wrote the above remark , found , in an Italian journal , an account of a splendid work lately published at Rome of engravings after designs by the two Riepenhauser , after the paintings of Polygnotus .
2 . Leonardo da Vinci ' s Last Supper at Milan . Raphael Morgen ' s famous plate has spread among the untravelled the knowledge of this glorious painting , by Goethe elaborately criticised . This tract was translated by the late Dr . Noehden in 1821 to which work we refer our readers . 3 . The Triumphal procession ( Triumpfzug ) of Julius Ccesar , by Mantegna . This article treats of one of the most valuable
treasures of art contained at Hampton court—rescued happily from the dispersion of the rich collection of King Charles the Fifth , consequent on the civil wars of the 17 th century . The historic dissertation gives an account of the labours of our earlier monarchs to supply our country with works of art ' in the absence of indigenous talent ; " * the accompanying description of the painting was
supplied b y Dr . Noehden . 5 . Tiscnbein ' s Idyls . Tischbein was an eminent artist the friend of Goethe . Like our own far greater Flaxman he laboured to regenerate the love and spirit of Greek art ; he composed historic or heroic landscapes , which Goethe supplied with the verses here reprinted , and accompanied by an account of the original pictorial Idyls .
6 . Handzeichnungen von Goethe . An account of his own drawings , of which etchings were published in 1821 . * Conscious of their insufficiency , ' he says , * I have added small poems to excite the inner sense , and laudably deceive the beholder , as if
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276 Goethts Works .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/60/
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