The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik
Georg Hegel · en
[Footnote 311: Hegel has doubtless Albrecht Dürer and yet earlier
German art in his mind.]
[Footnote 312: _Die besonderen Bestimmungen._ The lines of its definite
exposition.]
[Footnote 313: I adopt Hegel's generic term. But he means here little
more than delineation or composition.]
[Footnote 314: As between the art of painting and those of poetry and
music.]
[Footnote 315: _Geistig._ We may say the same thing of Tintoret's great
Golden Calf picture. But the objection to the composition as a work of
art remains more strongly than is the case with Raphael's picture.]
[Footnote 316: The same thing is a characteristic of Tintoret's
Annunciation in the S. Rocco Scuola and several pictures of Dürer.]
[Footnote 317: Fine examples of this are Rembrandt's Descent from the
Cross in the Munich Gallery, and the group of mourners in Tintoret's
Great Crucifixion.]
[Footnote 318: They have in this respect been well contrasted with the
characters of Euripides in the play of Aristophanes which particularly
emphasizes the difference between the heroic type of Aeschylus and the
realism of Euripides, "The Frogs of Aristophanes," text and translation
of B. B. Rogers; see Introd., pp. XVIII, XIX, XLV.]
[Footnote 319: As to ugliness and its treatment by Hegel, see Professor
Bosanquet's "History of Aesthetik," pp. 338, 355, and generally pp.
432-436.]
[Footnote 320: That is sculpture. Hegel calls it _im Plastischen._]
[Footnote 321: An ideal with Hegel is not necessarily an image of the
mind, but far more generally the concrete realization of life.]
[Footnote 322: He should have added Tintoretto at least. What could be
more pertinent than his Sages in the Palazzo Reale in Venice.]
[Footnote 323: Applies to the study rather than the talent exercised.]
[Footnote 324: _Aber ganze Grundbild des Charakters darstellen._]
[Footnote 325: _Den geistigen Sinn und Charakter._ He means the entire
spiritual impression, heart, soul, and intelligence, with its practical
effect in substantive character.]
[Footnote 326: I think this is implied here in Hegel's use of the words
_verarbeitet durch den Geist._ But it may mean "in the face as worked
upon the soul within the _person portrayed._"]
[Footnote 327: _Die wahrhaften absoluten Momente für die
Characteristik._]