The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-05-17

sclldeicnfc on the part OF the hard pushed quarry
Wh'n the antlgrod monster charged down upon
MN etuihing him TO death before be had umo
TO Withdraw his invaluable flint? That biz Of
bohccncasod rocl-whlt tragedies Of the Stone
Ago docs II not surroet7
But We have ftraycd far ancld from tho real
purpose Of these lines. which IL none else than
To make the reader acquainted with the INNINGS
OF nm Infinitely less remote ago. but which. "a
samples Of finished drawings OF sporting scenes,
yet rank ameus tho Oldest We have
FlOrcntine OF the Florcntincs. though Flemish
by birth for he WIS born In Brugcs In the year
1928, Giovanni della Strada. or TO use hls Latin.
tied name with which he frequently signed his
work JonnnCs Stradanus had acquired by his
apprenticeship TO Michael Angelo many Of the
famous artists pecullartles and manncrlsms as
a glance ut StradanuB prancing. hoavlly.mnnod
steeds and giaut'limbed men dscloscs. Strada.
nus was born NJ q most opportune moment for
tho craving for pictorial matter making itself
felt In the second half Of his century was Great.
Ing demand which far exceeded the supply. and
though your Bodies and Tschuds, and oven ear.
Her art critics. insist that this craving helped
more than any other circumstance 10 prostitute
art dobasng the divine inspiration OF the painter
to a common craft. II must not be forgotten that
but for men like Stradanus Theodore de Bry,
Hans Bol the multltudinous Gale family at Ant.
vcrp Collncrn, WlcrN, Mallory, Sadoler and Colt.
zius. well rs the De Passo family. who all
worked with extraordinary energy IN turning out
HE and Of occurrences In that tompcstuoua cen.
fury would he nothing like us correct and init.
mate as II is What progress, for instance art
made In the hali-oCntury between 1917 and the
year 1867. when Strudanus drew his one hundred
and four Vonntoncs sporting pictures, a glance
NJ "Thoucrdank" Emperor Maxlmnn's famous
book Of adventures, and At the prints appertain.
ing 20 the nrstnamed series will show Both tho
designer Of the pictures and the weldor Of the
grnver had made giant strides In the interval and
"A gnn ipNa ~ vIfsfy
drawings by stradnnus hand. many n master Of
the eighteenth century would have done well 10
study tho laanlsod Floming's method and
touches
The drawings AFFORD amusing evidence Of the
widespread IGNORANCE which then prevailed In
connection with certain forms Of snort Perhaps
the most characteristic In this respect Is tho pic.
ture Of mountain spOrt-vz.. tho chase Of the
channels. When one first saw the print of this
picture and ones astonished gaze rested upon the
delineation OF the agile mountain beast carrying
horns that are crooked forward instead OF back.
ward, one naturally assumed that this extraordl.
nary mistake was made by the engraver and not
by the artist who drew the animal. whose body
and pose are In other respects correct But in
this one would have done the busy Antwerp en-.
gravers an injustice, was disclosed when the
original came into ones possession. for there
immortalzed by master hand prance about not
one but several Chamos with this curious NAL
formation,
In other respects, too, Stradanus drew upon his
Imagination in connecting this drawing for he
represents the man OF Michael AngeloIke limbs
strapping stegelsen, or crampons 10 His naked
feet which, Of course was never done To turn
TO another form OF sport-elephant and ostrich
MISUNDERSTANDING In the former picture drew
his quarry OF very undersized Dimensions n mis-
take not usually made either by him or by other
artists Of his age, who, as n rule magnlhed the
size OF foreign animals. Take as an instance
our reproduction Of an engraving after anotho-
drawing by the same Florentne artist Her M,
have elephants which II we accept thu OIL. r,rv
| human form as our scale, must have ...ue
| thing like eighteen fee high, thnur. ...- ~.
as the inscription hello Ell, Or - a.. man i
! the act Of hams in..ug h' Ia a .r,..,.
| dyte or cavedw r. d race . ere yelieyed
20 be OF dwarf stature. the dsproportion ia In
tended to be as great as II 49, IA an early pic.