The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3)

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Fuseli Henry. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3)

ELEVENTH LECTURE. ON THE PREVAILING METHOD OF TREATING THE HISTORY OF PAINTING, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE PICTURE OF LIONARDO DA VINCI OF "THE LAST SUPPER."

TWELFTH LECTURE. ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ART, AND THE CAUSES WHICH CHECK ITS PROGRESS

APHORISMS, CHIEFLY RELATIVE TO THE FINE ARTS

A HISTORY OF ART IN THE SCHOOLS OF ITALY

THE TUSCAN SCHOOL

THE SCHOOL OF FLORENCE

SCHOOL OF SIENA

THE ROMAN SCHOOL

THE SCHOOL OF NAPLES

THE SCHOOL OF VENICE

THE SCHOOL OF MANTOUA

THE SCHOOL OF BOLOGNA

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Such is the influence of the plastic Arts on society, on manners, sentiments, the commodities and the ornaments of life, that we think ourselves generally entitled to form our estimate of times and nations by its standard. As our homage attends those whose patronage reared them to a state of efflorescence or maturity, so we pass with neglect, or pursue with contempt, the age or race which want of culture or of opportunity averted from developing symptoms of a similar attachment.

A genuine perception of Beauty is the highest degree of education, the ultimate polish of man; the master-key of the mind, it makes us better than we were before. Elevated or charmed by the contemplation of superior works of Art, our mind passes from the images themselves to their authors, and from them to the race which reared the powers that furnish us with models of imitation or multiply our pleasures.

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74. Metaphysical composition, if it be numerous, will be oftener mistaken for dilapidation of fragments than regular distribution of materials.

Coroll.– The School of Athens as it is called, by Raffaelle, communicates to few more than an arbitrary assemblage of speculative groups: yet if the subject be the dramatic representation of philosophy, as it prepares for active life, the parts of the building are not connected with more regular gradation than those groups: fitted by physical and intellectual harmony, man ascends from himself to society, from society to God.

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