, 1875-03-06

pofsEioa; d Fnei snd Raphael, wezs untolashly
r. TIsotu:t thess place and rfghts by u. Angelo.
nv ct!ccf of n1na 70 versatile and remarkable,
nt!etc1!1',6 tIfoAEh ninety ycafs OF ,tnremitt,pr
nc,as'sS aud sndus:ry, cas' only bo touched upon
| Wo find him first established In hi, studfo in
Florence. where tho voice al Sayouarnfa rnuat
Often haYo reachci auI stirred him then 1o
p,'scd a. ySar * Of llfs IN venlc. wIcn though Is
NJ mah GniY ~ years Of ago, ras sufficiently marked
70 ntlh: nun the Jealousy. haired and yengoauce
OF hia fellow afts!B. brief ie.urn to Florence,
and next, At 81, Ro!1s aud au,inuo sc,Ilnturc
claim him. vayions works wcre oxecuted b him
i. Tug Imperial City. but Condiyi says that, from
tiie timo Of tho completion tl,e,n OF III. HI.a
| l'ints. which now stands In ci,anel of saint
Tetcr'e, she was
THE FIRST MASTER IN THE wor1D.
:, Ih.t was high position for q yoang mar Of
Il years to hnid undfspu.od.
ter executing other works. two years OF thought
and chlseling caused Dartd Of CID 10 ttunI forth
IL complete Eel!of ar tho youthful champion Of
1aeAt afd slayer Of uotiah. It is not intended to
uitc'sn in this article tho merit uf hin separnto
works. but tue placing Of thus sta.uo uas s1icl,
married. epoch that Il deserves 10 te mentioned,
1t took thtoo days to get 1t into position III tho
enttanec of tho Palazxo yccchin, whers it ro.
maipcd 5G3 years. from 1904 until August, 1879,
rhep, a. tho I.ons,on INat,ra.cti Il cesIY Of tic
latter time said, "shs great singer was himself
nlnnR," rs he was removed, for projection. to ono
of the Florentinc sst-Gallerios. This A,ntue VAS
IsEhrtcd ii tho good genius Of tho city, and, az
TO G'eoiana .sckonea time from their Olym-
riada. ami tEe llonlanh from tue founding OF the
ee!sy, 70 did the FIoscnstnca from tho placing Of
1llcfl7ct AnEcto'n David. for GRIMM sayH: ..'fho
erection Of David WAS like an occ1.seilcn in Ma
t!ro t from Which people arc arc.eomei to reckon.
erection Of the Giant, AMI It wa mentioned in
records In which there waa no. lire besides re-
specs'ng ART" Thote uero indeed
MEMORABLE TI,1Ea
',l When d d yipei; sllehci Angelo. and Rapb :
Whon tls Del 1iedict uus in power; VI.
basonaro!& set tho scni to lla preaching b.
4 martyrs death; when tho LAGOON Wal e1-
4umcd; wlien tho Tariiae Julius II. Rat upon tho
Pootsdcal throne. tbsono. however, and an
oiilce and m Incumbent that combined could
moi abstn one 1ot or titte Of Michel Angeio'a
OWN be!f.rcspect, nor alitigat1 ls demand that
It. T. shonld 10 respected By tho Pope himself.
than the following s,ossage sent by lin to thu tho
lope, 10 ho qulctlr but lctcr1ilinelly left Ro1no
for Florence: " Afost Ho'y Father: was this
morning driven from tho Palace by tho order Of
Your Holiness. If yoll require MO ia future,
lomc." And Julius II. did sock and tlud him
elsewhere.
Whslc st rlotonea an invitation to visit Orient
al byzaattuni aud behold and suase lit tho mag
tA''A~eASt ~ hAV AAiea!lt htlil- u9 41BCuIGA Tor
him works Of syt, did not III tue least divert llu,
from his work at loue. Al Bologna, he becamo
foconcilcd to ho Tops. aud It WAS at that place
that 10 cast the mammoth b.onze .tasue Of
julius H. Another brief aojoura ut Fio1eucc,
and then Ho1ne and tue 1'opc again summon him,
AL the world now knoTs the Htory Of tue sue
cahdtnG tWoots 1nanths, which made
TIE HiBr1sE CEILING
"a epoch IN the history Of art that marks the
beginning Of modern painting. Tho brain of tlo
mighty uztis. teemed with gtaud conceptions
which Lis own sxillful right hard cunniEgIv
wrought ~ day BY. day, and week bJ week, aud
month " mouth, ho painted 90, regardless Of
phyaiesl comfort aud oven to the pust1aa,aut in
jury q hia eyssighs Tue couplo:el ceiling va,
exhibited to an admitting and npplauaing nosld
on "Afl Saints day" 1910 and Michael Aurelo
at Is years Of age was then pronounced tho
gscstest ruiater that had ever lived. Says QUO:
1T needed tho Meeting OF those two meu,
Julius Il. and Michael Angelo,-in the one such
pessaverance in requiring, and in the other such
power Of fuldlllng.-to produce this monument
OF human 1r4."
NUMEROUS woRKs
n sculpture, pAluttug. architecture, and epEi-
neor1nE followed. until VIC trd Angelo nEalu III
Venice, Hlcra honor mud Adulston take tho
place Of tho Hatred exhibited towarns h,m thirty
TcaEs before. Political troubles which bad
caslsad him to leAve Florence compelled him to
return, aud, as she erilcd hIouicl we're also ro-
stored. Ills work npou their famous tosnbs, 10
beautifully described by lloFeEs In Ills Itaty,"
went on. lie was DOW Gu years Of age, but Paul
III. must have lin NJ Rotne. who're tho de!lnea-
Last judgment" kept him employed ei1 OF
Hoven years. With tie Reformation in Ger.
nany, tho 1nquisition in spain, and tho atrifo
enScndercd throughout Luropo as the reHult, tt
wss fitting ths: tho struggle botween good and
oyll. aaaeplcted In tho Last Judgment" should
usher III tito Italian Christmas festivities Of 154l,
lie WAS bercfs of lis bcs:-lovca earthly f,ieutl
when he was ~ years. old. but 10 could .tltl paint
tho Paulno Chap.l; could btii exhibit himself
IN tho architect Ut 81. Peters, rs ho mover had
shown hs:ueelf before. lio became at lust tho
hulocrat ol Home. tho old and wiso doing him
honlaRe. AMI the young artists, whom le had In
earlIcr lifo rfpecdt gathering around him ~
!oyug b3,!y-saarti. Wii'o two OF bis pupils pub
lisled, while no worked bcfose them, his ufo
LAST nAYs AND DEATH.
His last work. subject ho Was representing
for tho third tluo--waa q marble group nf
Christ: a dead reta OH tho Virginia lap, NTH
unfinished ut hts death, which occurred Feb. l8,
1874. 1Io had boon m exilo from Florence thirty
years but, after funeral services In Rome bis |
dead body was secEotlT taken. according to his |
veyed as merchandise, because tho Romans would |
not knowingly allow What thoy 40 much wished |
To retain TO depart from the1r city. WHO can
read. even ut this distant day, tho uceo,,at Of !
hia silent. midnight burial in Santa Croes tic
Westminster Abbey Of Florence, near tho Dante
whose poems had been throughout hls life ll.s
ulsntal al,u'eut, without feeling not only moyoi
and touched by the Bccnc, but impressed with
the thought that tllat man in hia eodiu. whom no
raunot eyen think Of aa aged or dead, WAS moro
a1iyo in hls influence than any or all Of tic surg
ug ttrons who inplsteu upon tbs privilege OF |
;azing upon tho still perfect faco aud form OF
ne "Aogel-woll arrived" whom they had toug
.ineo y ohi!atenod '.lyile." Months wore occu..
.otcmontoB, which ucrc not completed Until tho |
|uly following his death.