New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-05
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
6binas ano Gbonsbts III europe.
Correspondence Of The Tribune. 4
mo XIV

Itsly-Misfortune Of Trsvelers-English
TraveIers-Coc y donald,
the Sculptor British Aristocrscy-
Tsnevsni-Wolffs Diana and Seasons
-Gott- Overlook Paint
er-American Painters in Rome Terry
-Cranch- Hicks-Remsins of the An
tique-Itslian Psinters-Do m inic HI inc
and Titfsn-Frescoes of Raphael-Mi.
ehel Angelo The Colosseu H oily
Week-st. Peter's-Pius TX. and his
Measures-Popula Enthusiasm--P u b lie
Dinner at the Bath of Titus-Austrisn
Jealousy-The "Contemporsneo."
RoNE, May, ls47
There is very little that can like to write about
Italy. Italy is beautiful, worthy to be loved and
embraced. not talked about. Yet remember well
that when afar liked to read what was written
about her now all thought of it is very tedious.
The traveller passing along the beaten track vet
tnrnoed from inn to inn, ciceroned from gallery 10
gallery. thrown through Incidence, want of tact,
or ignorance Of the language too much into the so
ciety Of his oonpatriots the least possible Of
the country fortunately, it is impossible to avoid
seeing great deal The great features Of the part
pursue and fiji the eye.
know Italy 20 say anything Of her that is full and
sweet as to convey any idea OF her spirit with
out long residence, and residence in the districts
untouched by the scorch and dust Of foreign inva.
sion, the invasion of the dilettanti | mean,) and
without an intimacy of feeling, an abandonment 10
the spirit of the place, impossible 10 most Amer.
cans; they retain too much Of their English blood
and the travelling English. as a tribe, seem to me
the most unseeing of all possible animals. There
are exceptions for instance the perceptions and
pictures of Browning seem as delicate and just here
on the spot as they did at distance but, take
them as a tribe they have the vulgar familiarity Of
Mrs Trollope without her vivacity, the cockneyism
of Dickens without his graphic power and love OF
the odd corners of human nature. ] admired the
English at home in their island | admired their
bonor truth practical intelligence, persistent pow
er But they do not look well in Italy they are
not the figures for this landscape. ! am indignant
at the contempt they have presumed to express for
the faults of our semi barbarous state What is the
vulgarity expressed in tobacco chewing. and
way OF eating eggs, compared to that which ell
bows the Greek marbles guide book in hsnd-chat
tiers and sneers through the Miserere of the Sstne
sibyls-prases ct. Peters as NICE talks OF
managing" the Colosseum by moonlight-and
snatches BITS" for "sketch" from the sublime
silence of the Campagna.
Yet was again reconciled with them, the other
day, in visiting the studio of Macdonald There
found complete gallery OF the aristocracy of Eng
land for each lord and lady who visited Rome has
considered it part of the ceremony to sit to him
for bust And what fine race how worthy the
marble what heads of orators, statesmen, gentle
men of women chaste. grave, resolute and tender
Unfortunately they do not look as well in flesh and
blood then they show the habitual GOODNESS OF
their temperament the habitual subserviencelto
frivolous conventions they need some great occa'
SION some crisis to excite them TO make them LOOK
as free and dignifed as these busts yet is the
beauty there, though imprisoned and clouded-and
such crisis would show us more then one Boadi-
cea, more than one Alfred Teneyanl has Just com
pleted statue which is highly spoken Of It is call
ed the Angel Of the Resurrection ! was not so
fortunate as TO find 1t in his studio. In that OF
Wolf saw a Diana. ordered by the Emperor OF
Russia 1t is modern and sentimental, as differ
cut from the antique Diana as the TRANCE OF novel
read young lady OF our day from the thrill with
which the ancient shepherds deprecated the magic
peryasons OF Hecate. bat very beautiful and ex
quisitely wrought He has also lately finished the
Four Seasons. represented as children. OF these,
Winter is graceful and charming.
Among the sculptors delayed longest in the
work. rooms of GOtt found his groups OF young
figures connected with animals very refreshing al
ter the grander attempts of the present time They
seem real growths of his habitual mind-frUits OF
Nature, full of JOY and freedom. His spaniels and
other risky poppets would please Apollo far bet
ter than most OF the marble nymPhs and muses. OF
the present day.
Our Crawford has just finished bust of Mrs
Crawford which is extremely beautiful full OF
grace and innocent sweetness. All its accessories
srechMming-,hew rea.hs the arrangement OF dra-
perry. the stuff of which the robe is made hope it
will he much seen on its arrival in New York.
he has also a Hcrodias in the clay, which Is
individual in expression. and the figure OF dlstin-
guished elegance. liked the designs OF Crawford
better than those Of Gibson. who is estimated rs
highest in the profession now.
Among the studios Of the European painters
have visited only that Of Overlook. 1t is well
l have much to say a more favorable time Of
what they represented to me. He himself looks
as if he had just stepped out OF one of them-a
lay monk. with q pious eye aud habtual morality
Of thought which limits every gesture.
Painting is not largely represented here by
American artists at present. Terry has two pleas
ing pictures on the easel one is costume picture
Of Italian life such as saw il myself enchanted
beyond my hopes, as coming from Naples l sP,
preached Santa Agatha day of graz sstd. Cranefi
sends soon to America picture Of the CamPagns'
such as saw il on my first entrance into Rome
all light and cslmness. Hicks, charming half
length of an Italian girl holding mandolin 1t
will be sure to please his pictures are full OF life
snd give the promise Of some real achievement IN
Art.
OF the fragments Of the great time, have now
seen nearly all that are treasured up here have,
however, as yet nothing Of consequence to say OF
them, | find that others have often given good
hats as to how they look and as to what they are,
can only be known by spproximatins to the state
OF soul out OF which they grew. They should not be
described but reproduced. They are many and