New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-01-30
City Items.
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compositions in Painting which have always stamped the
genius and the only things that give the painter
permanent fame less valued and less understood in
orr country than IN any other This is partly owing
circumstances great position in statusry takes up
no than single bust, and hence Gun be the
ornament OF genteman's library or drawing room,
while great painting find place 70 5estow ITSELF
We have the magnificent palaces galleries and i'm
mense saloons of the old world and hence have not room
for these large paintings even If we desire them An
artist therefore who the knowledge of his mission
which Is to instruct and refine well please spends
his years in producing great work finds al It's COM
pe,ion that 1t much useless property his hands
Our public galleries including the Capitol Washington
furnish only limited demand for such works, and the
only resource left the artist Is to make public exhibit
ton OF them Mr. Levy has just completed at Rome and
brought to New York magnificent painting representing
Chris, disputins with the Doctors in the Temple He
has spent years upon it. and jet will be chance
if he dsposes OF it for It's full value in this country We
will say that is the duty Of people to encourage
art and the arts. by visiting these great paintings when
thus publicly exhibited, for that would be degrading
both but it is for their sen,erest dc it. Independent
of the qualification OF gazing great work Of art every
do it, and frequently, who would ever become
a correct judge of paintings. He never can be critic
by looking portraits sketches &C. One learns faster
the true principles of art knows OF painting by
visiting frequently the magnificent picture OF the Court
OF Death than by looking all the heads and sketches
and little landscapes in the country. Such painting Is
study Nne-tenths Of our people do not know what
this means If the painting does not strike them avora
bly, al they conclude ocourse 1t is failure On this
principle of judging, half the great paintings OF Italy
would be- condemned at The fact is, painting
that reveals all its beauties the first glance has but few
Z Of nsa ada NIL
grea, compositions to be again and again. We
venture say there beauties in that those who
have visited it several times have not yet discovered
The great idea there evolved and the lesson ncucated
was OF an e1empore effort neither ca be caught and
embraced at glance. After one has it close by let
hin retire the farther part OF the room and conem
plate the imposing from distance. Some OF the
figures ne before dsked he then finds absolutely neces
ssry to the harmony and completeness OF tue "noe-
The form OF Old Age STOPPING bndy over the waters OF
oblivion that are moving silently sullenly at his feet
supported By tina, exqusi,ely beautful-nay, almost
dvine-for of Virtue her eye is turned Heaven Is
striking from any point of view but from distance
douby So You seem TO be spectator Of some distant
but actual scene The retirement and mystery OF the
cavern are sensbly felt Near by the actors seem
more as II performing part for you, but al distance
they appear absorbed in their solemn occupations
the unseen, Oh specLatols- gas
light another eject still ia produced. The strongly pro-
nounced figure and emphatic features OF Conhagrahon
possess if possible twofold vividness.
No one should fail to see this wonderful picture for
nothing else than for the impression it leaves the
mind We to say that every who visits
this painting thinks about the great principles OF
Art and the power OF the Painter han be does by his
annual visit the Academy OF Design. The dominion OF
the artist becomes expanded in hs view and ne learns
what world of thought and beauty and grandeur can
be spread out on the canvass.
n Mr. A. W. Clason, of the firm OF Clason Il
Paine 81 WaIstreet, attacked Mr.. James Gordon Ben
nett yesterday morning at tie corner Of Madensne and
Nassau. street Mr.. Clason mas been CONTEMPORARY
alluded 10 times by the Herald in connection with
the affair of Mr. McLachlan and Templetou; and yes
.erday morning The parties met and Clason
Drew dog. whip from beneath his coat,
and struck Bennett who put up his arms AID attempted
10 cover MS face with his cloak, exclaning, None OF
your nonsense After some halfadozen blows the whip
broke and the affair over-Benne:t cooy picking up
Mr. Casons hat which had fallen CT In the fray and the
mud and handing it 10 lis owner.
TIT FOR TAT-Mr Bennett OF the Herald states
,ha, he has commenced fifteen twenty hbe-suits
against Major Noah for articles recently pubihed In the
Sunday Times-being, we presume the Black Aai
Lectures which have made that paper almost as popular
as the Mercury under the refreshing stated preaching
of Dow Jr We learn farther that the Major Is fully up
to snuff and bis intention OF bringing tsy OF
forty prosecutions against Bennett Every time the
Major il served with writ slap 60 i'co Wits upon
Bennet,s shoulder. Bennett Will ose al this game IN
less he plays /. very extensively.
q The queries; scene we nave witnessed Tor
some time was the aggregation of newsboys yesterday
out Ina Yeya
Ledser-go, The Cowhdin of James Gordon Bennett
only one cen,-yere they avn Some fifty Of these
perpate,ic philosophers taking ii cool and easy
a Lam ~, III doEs.,