New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-22

in AishabiIe; his rcoms IN DISORDER h1iies are 10
aebcate and difficult" but promising 10 be bind 10
MI but HE ART and his hpowiedee finally bring them
and We turn about IN what weah be a ehsor with
ont kpowldoe Of his subtle laws of order. Here
is hure and ivy gathered thirty years ago at Tivoh
here cedar cones from Mount Lebanon, stuck in the
eurs Of Adran's bust; here colossal hand, big Ms
four Of ours cast from natures here, on the cut of
head Of the Psyche d dead coded snake; and round
and ronpd the Apollo Fighting Gladiator and the
Niobe. eagles beaks wild bOars' tusks, dred goats
head. water and air fowl wings, pepper pods, bu-
hons roots and withered fruits; museum OF nature
hits AZ hints in Arts compositions and snort hahd
characters in suggestion of the images which arr
males of Gods things Books and casts cover the
shelves. chairs and tables; paintings, drawings ana
encrayings cover the walls; hands, heads, stnaI
round, rrleyo babies Venuses, Herculeses' dangfi I'D
plaster from their familiar nails photographs
bones and marbles join in the interesting cohiusioh
An English aud Italian pupil SIT IN one corner s'
their drawing.
In the inner sanctum lie the cigar nibs OF unswept
Years There is no sun, no stove m fireplace
though ice lies often beneath the windows, and
little hand pot Of Goals is Fs wsrmest conpanion'
begging par rdon of the cigar which she rivals we
walk softly among the casts OF statues, not 10 dis
tuIb the dust quiyering on their planes and upper
surfaces One after another, sketch and picture,
nal drawings of Raphael and Michael Angelo stand
glazed about us. On one table are clay-modeled
candidates for bis statues; and in its great drawer
stump sketches, or ful-shsded drawings as candl-
didates for his pictures-their numbers increasing
from year to year, waiting TO go into canvas or
marble while their master is composing contem-
plating still: and never completing; waiting now,
more particularly, that his eyes may grow clearer,
or his hand steadier in the warmer weather, that he
NAV put some into echings and Autographs for the
benefit of the more executive body OF his profession
who. like birds of prey, live more on the lives OF
others than BY their own honest huntlngs. FIFTY
Holy Families. pure as Raphaels, with genera.
tons of Adams and Ewes and Venuses and
sacred and NEUROLOGICAL subjects, abound IN his
treasury, beside the volumes of lost studies and
sketches. stolen and appropriated to their fame
by more famous names. There are his etch-
ings of $50 pictures from the best composers,
his drawings of the ParthenOn marbles his studies
from the antique, his comparative anatomy, his
proportions of the human figure drawn and demon.
strated. then his old books and manuscripts, and
himself the gem of the old curiosity shop, with
short.cropped erect gray hair, his great bowed
glasses sIid down on his nose, his collar thrown
open on his shoulders, in capuchii-colored trcsk,
and slippers sans heels and sans toes alone like
bear in hollow trunk feeding on himself aoof
from the world dead 10 IFS charms, alive to Its fol-
lies despsing most modern sculpture, adorlng the
Greeks in the Parthenon and the Romans IN lro-
inns and Tituss arches, respecting Faxman and
Thorwalsden as much as they deserve, worshlpng
even at the shrine of the best in painting, bowling
10 Titan in Venice and Raphael in Rome, respect
ing others as they approach the excellence of draw
irg in the one and the perfection OF generalization
in the other a mOnomaniac in the knowledge OF
the antique and sculpture and the art OF lines In
pictures but intractable TO color and charoscuro,
and most Of all eccentric among the artists IN be-
ing free from envy, jealousy and evil speaking-the
hiestng harpies OF the ignobler ones of the pro-
tession.
After coffee in the cafe, We 60 10 the Vatican. IL
is ike levee on public days; every body goes and
meets his friends. All the halls are open, small
fees saved and ones vanity gratifed in being seen
at the shrine of Art when the Grundys pass through.
Compliments mngle in the devOtions inanltes are
heard the best things overlooked, or applauded
from the guide books, half the things cut of from
view by the crowd. and the rest turned to the ex-
pense of spirit and WEAKNESS of the flesh; and II
basphemy be calling of good evil, and evil good,
do not know where the objectionable sin is 80 un-
bhlshingly committed as here on Mondays.
But as extremes will sometimes meet and Lone
Illness seize one in crowd so Leather Stocking
touched me on the shoulder and whispered to me not
to betray him and he would show me something, ana
then led me 10 the spirit Of the suffering Amazons,
and after TO the Minerva in the "nnorO 6rdcet0, ana
showed me her all again, as if had never seen
her. She stood in profoundest meditation, breath
ing inwardly and moyelessy when the soul sinks
deepest still as statue, transfxed with thought,
her head inclined forward, her eyes looking down,
So fixed and abstracted that you might have spoken
thrice and she remained deaf She is the Goddess
of Wisdom, with all the truths of the universe on
her mind and needs must think, and as her artist
knew his business be made her the best thinker in all
marble and our Miss Cushman, being akin to the
Wisdom family has sent cast Of this Minerva 10 the
Boston Athensum.