The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-04-06
Composition by Two Eighth.
Grade Pupils. New Work Re-
Gently introduced.
ART HISTORY.

Leonardo Ga N1nc1 was porn some
time in the year 1862. He was one of
the most accomplished men of his time.
He was painter, bronze caster, en-
gineer, musician, author, sculptor and
architect. He was very skilled in each
of these arts.
Many interesting stories are told
about his love for caricaturing. He
would invite some of the humblest
people to his home, and entertain them
with humorous and pathetic stories, in
order to catch the expressions of their
faces. If anything in their expressions
caught his fancy he would sketch it be-
fore the person knew it. He was an
earnest student of an atomy.
One Of his works is the Madonna
Lisa" tits the portrait of a. beautiful
woman. The expression on her face is
very sweet, calm and serene. She is
smiling, and it is said that if you once
see the picture you will never forget
that smile. Da Vinci worked for about
four years on it, and then did not con-
slider it completed.
One day Da Vinci was walking along
the street when he CHANGED to see
man selling birds. The birds were
confined in a cage and were looking
rather dispirited. Da Vinci went up to
the man and asked him how much he
would sell the entire cage of birds for.
The man named a price, and Da Vinci
promptly bought the birds. Then he
opened the cage and let the birds fly
away.
Da Vinci finished his brilliant life in
1919.
Correggio, or Antonio Allegri, was
born in 1893 He obtained his name
from the province in which he lived.
He is a very great artist and is ranked
among the four great colorists of the
world Titan, while looking at one of
his works said, eff were not Titan, I
would want to be Correggio" One of
his works is st. Jerome. He received
one hundred ten dollars. two loads of
wood, few measures of wheat, and
two fat pigs for painting this picture.
Judging from this the people of that
time had rather an odd way of paying
artists for their work. One popularity
of his works is the fore shortening idea
he showed in them.
Raphael was born on Good Friday,
March s, 1883. His father died when
he was about eleven years old, so he
went to live with his uncle, his mother
being dead also. At an early age he
shovel very artistic temperament,
He was very fond of painting Ma
donnas, and it is thought this was be-
cause his home life was happy and con-
tented. An interesting story is con-
nected with his painting The Ma
donna of the Chair" He had been
looking for some time for particular
type of beauty for a Madonna he
wished to paint, and for child's face
that he wished to paint as the child,
Jesus. He had been unable to find any
to suit him, until one day, during his
wanderings, he CHANGED upon an old
mill. Around the mill was scattered
rubbish of all sorts, and among this
rubbish were some barrel slaves and
heads. Not far from the mill was a
tree under which sat the miller's
daughter with child upon her lap,
and running towards her was an older
child. Raphael called to the woman
to sit still, and, hastily catching up one
of the barrel heads, he drew the
picture.
During his life he painted two hun
dred eighty seven pictures, eighty por.
traits and made five hundred seventy
six drawings FRANCES DUANE