New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-16


the trouble to seek under The dcgradat0ns Of time, fn
the ausrst OF the master, the expressions now
eace and tie contours which have become illegshe y
cftain places He let obliged 10 restore 10 tho original
its primitive freshness, Witness To which Ss borne BY
some portions which were copied during the lie Of
Michel Angelo and have been spared by time Wehavc
thus before our eyes the Last Judgment" very nearly
az thu Roman people saw u and were struck dcpb wsc
Michel Angelo first unVaied his tremendous painting
on Christmas Day, 1871
an Theirs has retained in his cabinet the effect
which tins monumental copy of Slgalon produces by
similar copy, little less brilliant perhaps, and therc-
fore recalling stln satisfactorily the execution OF
Michel Angelo for thai prodigous master blended the
mos sobeF imagination with the passion for finish and
tue feeling for harmony His ideas STERN but his
touch was suave he conceived formidable creations but
he painted them with tranquil brush BY regularity
which completely distinguishes him from other painters,
he desired affect the soul strongly aud the gently
wherefore he applied treatment delicate minia-
ture 20 terrible figures and superb and violent coneep-
tons"
The author OF the History Of Painters" finds NJ.
THEIRS day. occupied In writing his History Of the
Empire, seated before his cylindrical desk, and writing
upon large sheets Of paper with Of these great as
which come from Venice, and were 80 often used Tor
drawing by the old Italian masters Together they made
the tour Of Italian ART of the Beautiful OF all ages and
lauds from the German TO the Spanish the Malay to the
Indian the Grectan TO the Chinese. First saluting
Raphael, you enter into the sanctuary, between the
"Debate on the Eucharist and the School Of Athens
The Assumption" OF Titan Is placed between DomFni-
chino's "Comiuunon o. ST. Jerome" and Raphsels
"TransnguTatiun" The copies reduced 10 the same
scale OF about three meters in hight and tho artist NJ
Bellay, has shown great talent as an squsrenist.
Above these famous chefs P0u1e Of painting arc
placed copies Of the sculptures OF the Medcean Chapel
in east broRze-the Day and Night the Dawn and Twi-
light also the "Pensero Of Michel Angelo, with two
lovely antiques There is, besides, Cavalier" which
NJ Theirs attributes TO Leonardo ia Vluci, and which
cannot be another hand The figure Is al aud
raee and its deicacy Of treatment strongly recalls the
great Florentine artist.
NJ Theirs has collected only the ergravings Of great
masters-of Marc-Antony the Wresters, the Cdsoteue
Alexander placing the works OF Homer ia casket aud
a very rare and splendid proof of a Bacchanal after
Giulis Romano He has RembrsDdts famous hundred
form piece" Christ shown TO the People the Three
Crosses the Mclei, the "Youth surprised by Death"
certain now undscoverabe landscapes ana several Of
those beggars, gTOtesquc and yet so sad whom nc
liked to skeeh-eycn few Of his strange scrbblpgs or
Albert Direr NJ Theirs las Melancholy" The Horse
OF Death ""The Knight and the Lady,, SAINT Hubert, and
tho Dreams" Marcte called them He has procured
the finest specimens Of Lucas OF Leyden the Virgil
in Basket" the Millrwoman.' Dance OF ATagdalcn,"
and Ecce Homo" Abandoning himself TO his pred
ectons historical ho has made Of the
engaviDgs Of Thomas de Len, and Gotzius, with the
etchngs Of Van Dyck, the stppng of Mofn the BURNS
of Hanteui Mason and Edelinck, the mezZotints OF
Richard Earem the crisp work Of Grateloup and the
aquants OF the Revolutions gallery of illustrous
personages as beautiful and numerous as that Of NJ
Cousin which is saying not little. In the series Of
Trouyan and Abraham Bosse iu the battles and segcs
of Cabot in his fairs Of torture, great and little
iseries the historian the manners, customs, and
the moral and material physiognomy of the age.
After the bronzes come the iyores the chief gem OF
which Is the SAINT Sebastian" Of Aonzo Cans Finally
the Chmesies: the Cinnamon do not paint their fres
Goes upon walls but upon curtains aud screens upon
sheets OF silk pasted sheets OF paper NJ. Theirs has
some illustrations of their historical and genre painting
which date from the tenth century. Then follows Japan
ose lacker ware; and the JdpoHeies and rhiHses
mingled with copies GTecan art marble and terra
Gotta side terra-cottas Of the Renaissance
II you admire them, and work from the hand OF Luca
della Robba NJ. Theirs has made n B,etaH1c avoiding
dsorer the works Of all and u. Charles Blanc
reports this expression uttered BY the historian: GOd
has disinhered member OF his family each race, in
its own peculiar fashion Of work. has succeeded In reach
ing decree OF perfection which of the others has
attained"
These words show to what extent N. Theirs wou!d
have delighted in investigating the aesthetics Of Art IL
the history Of his country had not occupied his literary
and political talents. 81 have desired" he says, ito
Art The history OF Florence upon which have worked
TOR ten years. led to this II strength enough be left
me, may yet sketch picture Of the developments
of art among all races OF The love of my
country and the love of certain Ideas, threw me into
political life but have found It pecan Of bitterness
Here lind repose, peace, forgetfuss Of injuries, aud
Il may dare to eddthe justice CT the historian Here,
men are no more to me than pictures want
from them than from the figures Of Raphael and Michel
An gelo My heart remains warm, bur my intellect has
become ice"
These words seem to have been spoken a moment of
rather in that life OF serenity and love, ia
his cabinet But the world demands nowadays from IL
Theirs something else than mis- pictures He set himself TO
make history in action, aud perhaps ho viii yet take the
time TO write this last history Of his own day. For US 1t
ia curious vet an impressive spectacle 20 statesmen
I'm the midst Of eonyuson which sweeps them away
the revolution which brings them back still studying
ike philosophers aud working like Beneic,nes, TO fad
the means being eloquent in books the tribune
Since NJ Timers has again set foot ia his own home he
has nearly forgotten the outrags OF the Commune in
finding his friendsthe living aud the dead, and
Aud the latter NOT ess eloquent than
the former The former Head of The state, whom his
friends still call the President, walks ehcertulY about
questioning one the other, and relating to them,
apropos OF this or that historical traits Of all the ages
His memory IL the most marvellous and the most oppor
tune: NJ Qambetta woad say opportunste."
Everything Is green In this mansion, the coloring
the mirrors which reflect the garden, and the
binding Of the books The only age is that OF NJ Thers
hieh the greenest Of old ages There also
lrOnzes but not those the rescue Of which from the
sucking ruins OF the Tulleres is described by NJ Charles
Blame There we discovered the remains OF silver ink
stand and little antique of terTa-cOtta, Which
remembered to have seen IN one OF the
glass cases NJ Theirs. This fragile bit OF Athehian
ceramic art, two thousand years Old after hay
ing traversed the ages and the seas after hay-
ing q hundred times escaped the peril Of
fracture, was found entire under heaps Of ashes
in toe midst of erumbled stones and every kind
Of debris! But what still surprising, the con-
Migration having undoubtedly melted the broken glass;