Famous European Artists

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Sarah K. Bolton. Famous European Artists

PREFACE

MICHAEL ANGELO

LEONARDO DA VINCI

RAPHAEL OF URBINO

TITIAN

MURILLO

RUBENS

REMBRANDT

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER

TURNER

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Hermann Grimm says, "Reverence for what is great is a universal feeling… When we look at great men, it is as if we saw a victorious army, the flower of a people, marching along… They all speak one common language, know nothing of castes, of noble or pariah; and he who now or in times to come thinks or acts like them rises up to them, and is admitted into their circle."

Possibly, by reading of these great men some may be led to "think and act like them," and thus "be admitted into their circle." All of these possessed untiring industry and a resolute purpose to succeed. Most were poor in early life.

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He worked now so constantly that he scarcely took time to eat or sleep, and became ill from overexertion. In the midst of his labors and illness, he writes his father, "Do not lose courage, and let not a trace of inward sadness gain ground in you; for, if you have lost your property, life is not lost, and I will do more for you than all you have lost. Still, do not rely upon it; it is always a doubtful matter. Use, rather, all possible precaution; and thank God that, as this chastisement of heaven was to come, it came at a time when you could better extricate yourself from it than you would perhaps have been earlier able to do. Take care of your health, and rather part with all your possessions than impose privations on yourself. For it is of greater consequence to me that you should remain alive, although a poor man, than that you should perish for the sake of all the money in the world.

Your Michael Angelo."

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