. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . again, an old lady whose education hadbeen neglected in her youth. She came into a largefortune, and at some forty years of age put herselfunder the best masters. She once said to me asfollows, speaking very slowly and allowing a longtime between each part of the sentence ;— Yousee, she said, the world, and all that it contains,is wrapped up in such curious forms, that it is onlyby a knowledge of human nature, that we can rightlytell what to say, to do, or to admire. I copied thesentence into my note-book immediately on taking
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . again, an old lady whose education hadbeen neglected in her youth. She came into a largefortune, and at some forty years of age put herselfunder the best masters. She once said to me asfollows, speaking very slowly and allowing a longtime between each part of the sentence ;— Yousee, she said, the world, and all that it contains,is wrapped up in such curious forms, that it is onlyby a knowledge of human nature, that we can rightlytell what to say, to do, or to admire. I copied thesentence into my note-book immediately on taking myleave. It is like an academy picture. But to return to the Italians. The question is, howhas the deplorable falling-off in Italian painting beencaused ? And by doing what may we again get DECLINE OF ITALIAN ART. 189 Bellinis and Andrea Mantegnas as in old time ?The fault does not lie in any want of raw material :the drawings I have already given prove this. Nor,again, does it lie in want of taking pains. Themodern Italian painter frets himself to the full as.
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