Walks in RomeHare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert)
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Walks in Rome
Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert)
Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel
"When Titian or Tintoret look at a human being, they see at a
glance the whole of its nature, outside and in; all that it has of
form, of colour, of passion, or of thought; saintliness and
loveliness; fleshly power, and spiritual power; grace, or strength,
or softness, or whatsoever other quality, those men will see to the
full, and so paint, that, when narrower people come to look at what
they have done, every one may, if he chooses, find his own special
pleasure in the work. The sensualist will find sensuality in
Titian; the thinker will find thought; the saint, sanctity; the
colourist, colour; the anatomist, form; and yet the picture will
never be a popular one in the full sense, for none of these
narrower people will find their special taste so alone consulted,
as that the qualities which would ensure their gratification shall
be sifted or separated from others; they are checked by the
presence of the other qualities, which ensure the gratification of
other men.... Only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting
murmur about the name of Titian, which means the deep consent of
all great men that he is greater than they."--_Ruskin's Two Paths,
Lect. 2._
31. Death of the Virgin: _Albert Durer_.
32. Maddalena della Radice: _Guido Reni_.*
"The two Magdalens by Guido are almost duplicates, and yet one is
incomparably superior to the other. She is reclining on a rock, and
her tearful and uplifted eyes, the whole of her countenance and
attitude, speak the overwhelming sorrow that penetrates her soul.
Her face might charm the heart of a stoic; and the contrast of her
youth and enchanting loveliness, with the abandonment of grief, the
resignation of all earthly hope, and the entire devotion of herself
to penitence and heaven, is most affecting."--_Eaton's Rome._[11]
Near the Piazza Sciarra, the Corso (as Via Flaminia) was formerly
spanned by the Arch of Claudius, removed in 1527. Some reliefs from this
arch are preserved in the portico of the Villa Borghese, and though much
mutilated are of fine workmanship. The inscription, which commemorated
the erection of the arch in honour of the conquest of Britain, is
preserved in the courtyard of the Barberini Palace.
On the right of the Piazza Sciarra is the Via della Caravita, containing
the small but popular _Church of the Caravita_,[12] used for the
peculiar religious exercises of the Jesuits, especially for their
terrible Lenten "flagellation" services, which are one of the most
extraordinary sights afforded by Catholic Rome.
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