[Footnote 328: The German expression is, "It is not a serious affair with her sinning." I am not sure that Hegel's view here does not lean towards the sentimentalism he generally so strongly opposes. No doubt a clear conception of the Magdalene's character is difficult. But it is obvious that the less stress we lay upon her sin, the less weight her conversion carries from the religious point of view, and the less great appears the effect of the interposition of her divine Master. Correggio was not a master likely to penetrate profoundly into his subject. But, on the other hand, it must be admitted that Hegel's contention is in one aspect of it supported by the far finer conceptions of the Magdalene in Tintoret's work. At least this great master clearly shows us that in his view of her she was strongly emotional, heart and soul in everything whether for good, under good influence, or for evil under opposite direction. It is possible to understand Hegel's interpretation as one mainly aesthetic.] [Footnote 329: In Berlin. The statement is made in February 1829.] [Footnote 330: The omission of the Spanish school at least omits a most important link with modern impressionism and its close relation to that transition to music. And it is impossible to indicate the progress of landscape without reference to the English school.] [Footnote 331: "Ital. Forsch.," vol. I, p. 279.] [Footnote 332: The words _in ähnlicher Weise_ make no sense.] [Footnote 333: "Ital. Forsch.," vol. I, p. 280.] [Footnote 334: Literally the sense is "Which (apparently agrees with the trait of piety) invigorates with soul that assuredness and accepted fact (_Fertigkeit_) of existence, which is from the very first (_von Hause aus_) more decisive (_entscheidenere_) in this province of salvation (_des Heils_)." _Heils_ must obviously be used in the same sense as _Heiland_ above. My translation is necessarily rather free, but I hope I have emphasized the meaning.] [Footnote 335: _Ein ideal bleibender Uebergang._ The transition is rather one the soul imagines than an actual fact. "Ideal persistence" is perhaps better.] [Footnote 336: _Religiosität_ here used in good sense.] [Footnote 337: Lit., "More free from struggling." Compare Saint John and Saint Paul as examples on the higher levels.] [Footnote 338: That is Italian painting.] [Footnote 339: Hegel's delight in Italian opera is well known to readers of his correspondence. In the above fine passage he to some extent unbelts himself from his ordinary tone of rather austere reticence.]