Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-01

Is Intellect comprises three degrees the Imaginative
the rational and the efuent intellect The eluent in
elect Of utterance order aud strict sequence of
This into sculpture the relation OF story in or
derby manner and with sequence Of the parts
thereof Illustrated in sculpture by Kiss Amazon Crys-
tai Paace,) by much higher work the Gates of the
Baptstery of Florence Lorenxo Ghbertisl and by Di-
ana the Huntress
16 The rational or strictly the reasoning intel
leot that of the of analytic hought-the Bacon
ian intellecto the philosophical nusratedn sculpture
by Thorwaldsens Schiller Thorwadsens Gutenberg and
Schwanthalers Gutenberg.
IT, The imaginative intellect is that which ntuitivey
penerates into the heart Of things and with absolute
and instantaneous certainty lays bare dominons of the
soul which far beyond the knowledge Of the rational
intellect II is the power of Michel Angelo and shak-
spearethe inmost highest intellectual faculty belong
ing to humanity 1t represented sculpturay Though
not in actual sculpture by Michel Angeles Prophets
the Sistine ChapeJeremiah Isaiah and Daniel These
he it observed derive nothing from their situation nor
from the painting of them, and if executed on stone $50
scupturesque are they) would be just noble and ex-
pressive as they now
IS. There three degrees Of WILL for which there
are notin our yernacuar any Names but which may
called third, or Utmost; second interior and first
external BY the first, external is meant the quail
ties of will containing the love Of activity or in other
words those wilfacues which apply what is
nal to the active agent Love- flowing into these acu-
ties produces the repose that into activity Illus
trated in sculpture by Michel Angeles figure of Day.
Though this grand work possesses higher elements his
statue Of Dswn in the chapel his also possessing
4 higher elements, and his statue Of Moses
TO- By the second interior degree is meant the qua
ltes of will by which man determines matters thus,
the will that acts in equal plane Will of this degree
produces repose that requires not the harshness
troll nor fears the danger of rebellion. It's in
parlance, the governing WILL Illustrated in sculpture by
Michel Angeles statue of Lorenzo de NIedic Though
the illustration would have been better had the
presented man of regeaerate wil) the adjoining
statue of Juiano de Medici, Subject to the
mark Here would be placed the statue Of George Wash
ington, were there in existence statue worthy Of the
subject.
20 BY the third nmos degree is those facu-
ties of will which have relation what is d6ore-the We
nerave will for instance. This degree gives the repose
Of perfect trust This the highest quality of art has
been very noby represented in the figures of angels in
some of the pictures of Fra Angelica and Orgagno, in
Pisa; some two or three figures from which could be
transferred to sculpture without any loss of their
sIonal rank In sculpture it has been fully represented
In Michel Angeles figure of Day, see No. l0) though
the assumption of this rank by that inspired work is in
superficial minds nterred with by the fact that the figure
4 is masculine and undraped.
The illustrations from sculpture arc adduced with re-
ference to their mental rank merely and without any
gard to their very great difference of rank in zecuon
and should be observed that all the works nstanced
are modified by the possession in different degrees of
the various other qualities of the ascending and descend
ing SCALE They arc placed in the particular rank they
here occupy by virtue of their predominant quality.
IL All these divisions of rank in works Of art sub
ect to an alternative which has been usually overlooked
IN artcrlticsm The qualities Of mind which they repre-
sent may exist in regenerate unregenerae state
to use apostolic language, these qualities may exist in
the spiritual man the natural and according
they are spiritual natural in the artist the artistic
qualities that represent them will be also spiritual
tural regenerate unregenerate. In this view
clearly the difference between Fra Angelica, who could
really conceive and paint angel This heart being
the abode of anges) and Canova, whose every figure
breathes the breath of sensuality.
The unregenerate or ev-hearted and alsethoughted
artist possesses and all the faculties of the mind
but perpetuay and inevitably nverts the proper order
and makes the higher faculties subordinate to the lower
The regenerate good hearted and ethoughted
st, on the contrary, is forever lin paraesm with his
spiritual progress) developing his higher faculties, and
approaching nearer to proper order Of his whole mind
IN bringing it under the influence of Divine Love and Wis
DOM The love and faith that in him stamp their i'm
press on his works surely and distinctly the sensual
will Of the unregenerae builds its slime into
the form of statue No bath Of public applause from
those who can too well appreciate this latter work will
ever wash 1t cleau and the day inevitably approaches
when its disgusting rank will be perceived The distnc
ton between these two classes Of art call the
tst cannot Be- too widely marked The one IS full Of
power and purity the other of exaggeration and sensual
ity; and there must always be between them the gulf
that lies between the sculptures Of the Medc Chapel and
those Of Bernin The indulgence Of sefw ensayes the
affections and blinds the intellect; and may here fifty
receive lesson from Him who says; al of mine
self do nothing as hear Judge; and judgment Is
just because seek aofmme p but the viii Of the
Father which hath sent me."-John V, so.
%. must yet speak Of the SPHERE, the uses and
object of art This subject has been confused per-
haps than any other connected with art and my limits
will permit now nothing than a glance at the pro-
per treatment oft Arcritics with few exeeptons
may be divided into two schools; the teaching that
art in the pleasure that affords the artist and the be-
holder, is its reward and that this pleasure ncud
ing the fame that to the arst is its only object
and use the other school teaching that art is the expo
nen Of truth and that the artist may and must work for
fame in efectng his purposes These notions begin
ming to take their hold many minds and it is TO be
hoped that they may soon become matters of history
%. Apart from the which makes charity begin at
home, and thus makes art profession in the material
sense of the word the consideration Of which does not
grades Of use appealing to the three constituents Of the
man:
First we have sensitive uses appealing to his activity
or merely external faculties These may be per-
Termed by works Of all grades Of art those of higher
grades performing higher at the time while
works Of the lowest grade perform these sensitive uses
| alone.
/ The first sensitive is that which statue group
performs in being merely physical fact, rather sim
| ply announcing itself as existant
~ The second use is the performance Of some office
or purpose as by being ornament in house garden
forming part Of fountain decorating the dies of
balustrade IL now acquires locality.
20 The third use is that for which il must possess
something higher than the physical purposes Action,
likeness costume and other external qualities that rise
to the rank Of characterstcs perform the Of enabling
the spectator to recognise the subject of the work and
know its external purpose.
There are those as above observed who do not know
enough OF art TO be able TO believe that sculpture
beyond this plane Of But in fact these sensitive
uses are related to the higher grades Of exactly
as the foot related to the body and the head it
ports There are some men who believe any thing
which Is not confirmed by the senses others which be-
eve not that which is confirmed by their logical
sonng; others who believe any thing which is not
confirmed by that noble poetic power almost independent