. Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. . ^airness of the Sea and VENICE and ATHENS. GERMAN SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING. 169 When, in the closing lecture of Aratra Pen-telici,* I compared Florentine with Greek work,it was to point out to you the eager passions ofthe first as opposed to the formal legalism andproprieties of the other. Greek work, I toldyou, while truthful, was also restrained, andnever but under majesty of law; while Gothicwork was true, in the perfect law of Libertyor Fra
. Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. . ^airness of the Sea and VENICE and ATHENS. GERMAN SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING. 169 When, in the closing lecture of Aratra Pen-telici,* I compared Florentine with Greek work,it was to point out to you the eager passions ofthe first as opposed to the formal legalism andproprieties of the other. Greek work, I toldyou, while truthful, was also restrained, andnever but under majesty of law; while Gothicwork was true, in the perfect law of Libertyor Franchise. And now I give you in facsimile(Plate VI.) the two Aphrodites thus compared—the Aphrodite Thalassia of the Tyrrheneseas, and the Aphrodite Urania of the Greekskies. You may not at first like the Tuscanbest; and why she is the best, though bothare noble, again I must defer explaining to nextlecture. But now turn back to Bewicks Venus,and compare her with the Tuscan Venus of theStars, (Plate II.) ; and then, here, in Plate VI.,with the Tuscan Venus of the Seas, and theGreek Venus of the Sky. Why is the Englishone vulgar ? What is
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