New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-15


merit OF being nearly literal.
Strozzi expresses his admiration of the statue
with play upon the name Of It's creator, and,
supposng you TO stand before it. nc says:
This NG,rr, which swcey seems in stone to sleep.
Was b. an .Inccl sculp;ureI nut.
And is alive. though >urberln. 20 deep;
VASE her, and speak to her. II YOU doubt"
Tic answer of The Sculptor has cqua! elegance,
with deeper feeling of the condition OF humanity
In the person Of his statue he replies:
"Mqc love sleep, but moIc to be Of stone:
/. happiness erjUyc, by alone;
Then wake me not hush! whisper low
The house Of Michdci Ange!o is not far from
his buralp place. and IS enc Of the 'nGst interesting
relics in Florence. 1t is still inhabited by his
hnea descendants, who continue TO bear his
family name of Buonarotti, and who are, with
good reason, proud TO preserve the memorials OF
their great ancestor On entering the hall Of the
mansion met two ladies coming out, who salu!ed
me with the frank courtesy so characteristic OF
the Italian women, and turned back 10 summon
a servant TO wait on nc. When they left me
found from my guide that they were BuoaarothS,
and the high pleasure and honor which felt in
learning taat had conversed with 4 descendant
of Michael Angelo, gave IA strong proof Of the
veneration inspired by his genius. The first OF
his suite of rooms contains his statue by Novelli,
and is lined with paintings recording some ot the
honors he received; as where in one nc Is show
inr to the Pope his plan for erecting Saint Peters
in another, a Dcpu,clion froln Venice beg him TO
rive them design foF the Ratio; and in third,
an Embassy from the Grs"d 3j"idnn aiii'c' I"
obtain from him plan for a bridge at Constant
nope. The second room is his Studio, into which
he used to rush in the middle of tie night, when
rev IDEA inspired him, and chisel away BY the
Ee:l. Of candle stack into his pasteboard cap.
The third room Of the suite remains unchanged
in even lis furniture since he left it for the Church
of Santa Crocc. Around it hang his hall. finished
designs, and the original sketches for parts Of his
Last Judgment In the closets against the
wall arc his easel-aticks and His chisel, now
without their former magic-his slippers, his
drinkinr.cup, and even the TASKS which he had
emp,ied of wine. These relics carry you hack
so forcibly to the Sixteenth Century, that you
himself. a ineal descendant of the same name,
Michael Angelo Buonarotti, quite young man,
is also painter in this very studio, ana the next
room contains his best performance, 'The Cep-
ture of Missilonehi' 1t is II clever specimen Of
the modern French school. but whatever may be
the ability of the young Buonaro,t;, his name
Will provoke destructive comparisons, and he
will be dwarfcd by the ovcrshadowing greatness
Of his .lu*,tious ancestor.
The mantle of Michael Angelo seems 10
have been waited over 10 the new Continent
which has derived lis name from another Flor
entine. Amcr;go Vespucc Crawford, Powers,
Grcenough, Cievcngcr and Others command the
hiel, admiration of even the fashdous Italians,
and their genius and skin seem better appreciated
by them than by their OWE countrymen. Craw-
Iord-who will hereafter be named with Canoya
and Thorwal,lsen--is in Rome, and Clcvenger
has unhappily died with his first ideal work un
finished-but Potccrs and GreenouGh arc still in
Florence. In the rooms of the latter is the cOlos-
sal mode! OF his Washington, (thc original OF
which is by this time too familiar 10 you to need
any commonD with many oihe. statues and busts
in various stages Of progress, among which is
very finely conceiycd and executed David, whose
countenancc and bearing admirably express his
modest pride and subdued exultaton for the VIC
tor over the Phstine, upon whose sword he
leans. Powcrs has Just finished his EVE. She
is perfect woman, not ofthe grlish beauty which
some might ahstractedy prefer, but such as should
hc the Mothe. Of Mankind. She stands erect, lln.
Ike all the Venuses OF antiquity for she feels no
shame and no necessity for any concoamcnt. She
is gazing al the apple which she holds in her right
hand, and seems TO be deeply pondeFing whether
TO eat it or not, forgetting that " the woman who
celebrates is lost" In her left hand ere others OF
the fatal fruit for the benefit Of her husband when
she has yielded 10 the suggestions of the Serpent
who winds around stump by her side You viii
! probably have the pleasure of seeing ii in America,
either as The property Of Mr.. Preston of South
Carolina, Or an attractive and valuable object
of public exhibition. An English gentleman has
seized upon tic swectiy pcnsI"c and gracefully
constrained Greek Slave OF the same arlis,
Some American should seca:e in time his yet
unfinished Fisher Boy figure whose occapa.
ton is shown by the net end t:llcE in his right
hand, while with his LEFT he holds a conch-shel
TO his ear in the supcrstitious belief that lis muT
murings will foye,eIl u him any approaching
storm 1t ernbodics vcEy happily the we!i-kno~r
lines of Wordsworth, which describe
a curious child, applying 10 his car
The c,'pvoiutnr. .; siuJUjl, tipped shell
TO which, silence hu,hot b., scUl
I.is,ene1 lucutly and nus ccuncnHTcc soon
frightened win Jog ioc mucnufirgs from WITHIN
Were hcard-souo!0Us c7denccs-wbc.eby
To his belief. the monitor expressed