Wonders of Italian Art
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By Raphael, In the Pitti Palace, Florence.
the Virgin, leaning over the body of her son, whom she clasps in her arms, but turning her eyes on the spectator, she is very different from the usual type of Raphael's Virgins, and from all the school which preceded him. This is the only one of his simple Madonnas who has not her eyes cast down. Belonging more to the world than the Madonna del Gran Duca and the Madonna del Cardellino^ but still more beautiful, and adorned with rich ornaments Digitized... by VjOOQIC ii6 WONDERS OF ITALIAN ART.
and brilliant garments, she is the model of ideal beauty, but in accordance with Grecian rather than Christian thought. It is thus that I imagine that Venus Anadyomene of Apelles, which all Greece came to see in his studio, as they did the Venus of Praxiteles, in the temple of Cnidus.
Raphael has in fact here painted a Christian Venus. This is the most decided attempt that his art had yet made to free itself from the bonds of religious tradition, thenceforth to be treated with more independence than before, as a sort of mythology which the artist may interpret at will Before having seen the Madonna della Sedia^ perhaps (I make the confession with humility) I had admired Raphael more from the accounts of others, and from the greatness of his fame, than from my own taste and convictions.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
By Raphael, In the Pitti Palace, Florence.
the Virgin, leaning over the body of her son, whom she clasps in her arms, but turning her eyes on the spectator, she is very different from the usual type of Raphael's Virgins, and from all the school which preceded him. This is the only one of his simple Madonnas who has not her eyes cast down. Belonging more to the world than the Madonna del Gran Duca and the Madonna del Cardellino^ but still more beautiful, and adorned with rich ornaments Digitized... by VjOOQIC ii6 WONDERS OF ITALIAN ART.
and brilliant garments, she is the model of ideal beauty, but in accordance with Grecian rather than Christian thought. It is thus that I imagine that Venus Anadyomene of Apelles, which all Greece came to see in his studio, as they did the Venus of Praxiteles, in the temple of Cnidus.
Raphael has in fact here painted a Christian Venus. This is the most decided attempt that his art had yet made to free itself from the bonds of religious tradition, thenceforth to be treated with more independence than before, as a sort of mythology which the artist may interpret at will Before having seen the Madonna della Sedia^ perhaps (I make the confession with humility) I had admired Raphael more from the accounts of others, and from the greatness of his fame, than from my own taste and convictions.
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