The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-15

often hear of natural parents and unnat-
ural husbands and sons, but here was a
son who was thoroughly natural and so
was his work. He said he didn't ask any
body to take his word for it, but he let
his work show for itself "If you do not
like my painting or if it scales off or
blisters, or the varnish does not stand the
climate" ne used to say, bring it back
and l will replace iJ.'
He was not only a great painter but also
a poet musician, mathematician, mechanic
and sculptor He could also play tennis
and break steers.
Da Vino painted fresco called the Last
Sampler which has been severely criticised.
1t is peeling off now owing to the fact that
he was experimenting with some new
paints which he got of the great paint and
oil works at Milan. The table cloth among
other things, in this great masterpiece, if
ironed according to the way it seems to
have been folded, would have made it a
square wad Of linen two feet hi sh and
those who have taken in washing for years
as | have, will agree with me, that you
cannot fold and iron a package two feet
high. One Of Da Vinci's apostles also
wears spectacles and l think there is
telephone in the corner of the room. Pos
sibly it was inten e ! for something else,
but it looks ike telephone.
Giotto was earliec on the ground than Da
teenth century. His parents were mar
ried before he met them which is why he
had the laugh on Da Vinci as MIR. Brown
ing would say. Giotto was a shepherd to
start with, but soon attracted attention by
sketching sheep occasionally on stone
and doing it so graphically that great
many people agreed with him that it looked
like a sheep. He next began the study of
sacred subjects, putting more expression
into the faces than any artist had ever
done before. Up to that time saints were
detected in painting only by the large and
top heavy halo placed on them and the his
torian says that prior to Giotto's time the
crucifXion had been handled so awkwardly
that it was necessary to label the thieves
SO that they could be readily distin yuished
It is also said that all three of tn figures
bal an expression on their faces betck ken
in the keenest enjoyment.
Giotto changed all this and easily became
the fat er of painting and the MI sale art
Michael Angelo was most singular man.
He lived to be almost ninety years of age
and never married. He was sixty efore
he had tender thought iowa any ne Of
the fair sex. He was great paint but
what a long, black life he must have led,
after all Michael was also a very good
sculptor, getting all he could do at this in
winter when the weather was too inclem-
ont for painting The last tN enty years
of mis- life however. he had the il b Of deco
rating st. Peters inside, and though he did
NOT live to see it completed, his skill is
visible everywhere IN the beautiful edlhce.
Titan was more of portrait painter and
used to do good deal of enlarging from
nhotopraphs. He was good colorist and
his perspective met with hearty encour-
ogement from one and all He died in the
S15;5et of his career, as a result of the regu
lar Italian pestilence which generally kills
off the best people of Italy just as they be
gin to show signs OF real genuine worth.
heen noted for many centuries. A keen
&c for arr and a bitter hatred for sanitary