The Century illustrated monthly magazine . quite warm and yellowish in tone, but from afew feet and as a whole, their juxtaposition to the richgarnet and yellow robe of Joseph, and the brilliant ver-milion of the dress of the Child, renders them of acool and bluish cast, and the difference is surprising. The flesh tints throughout are warm and glowing,and have all the depth and softness of nature. I wasmuch struck with this on looking through my magni-fying-glass at the face of the priest: the softness anddecision of the detail, the quick intelligence of the eye,and the mobility and tenderness
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . quite warm and yellowish in tone, but from afew feet and as a whole, their juxtaposition to the richgarnet and yellow robe of Joseph, and the brilliant ver-milion of the dress of the Child, renders them of acool and bluish cast, and the difference is surprising. The flesh tints throughout are warm and glowing,and have all the depth and softness of nature. I wasmuch struck with this on looking through my magni-fying-glass at the face of the priest: the softness anddecision of the detail, the quick intelligence of the eye,and the mobility and tenderness of the expressionmade me smile at my audacity in attempting suchwonders by great coarse lines in boxwood. But how my heart beat when I came to the face ofthe child Jesus ! I always leave the most difficult partof my work till the last, so that while engaged uponthe easier portions I have time to study over and workup gradually to the climax. Fortunately on this I hadthe benefit of Mr. C. F. Murrays criticisms, as he ANDREA MANTEGNA. 401. DETAIL OF THE CIRCUMCISION, BY ANDREA MANTEGNA, IN THE TRIBUNE OF THE UFFIZI. happened in at the Uffizi when I had about finishedthe block. The appealing look the child casts to hismother, and her sympathy, are very touching. I hadto do every stroke on this block before the original,or rather in another room next to where the picturehangs, and this kept me running in and out the wholetime, so that I was enabled to accomplish but very littlein a day; the original being marvelously finished andexquisite in detail, and the photograph being very badand quite altered in the expression of the heads, I waskept down to every eighth of an inch. MANTEGNA AS AN ENGRAVER ON COPPER. MANTEGNA was a famous engraver on copper, andwas among the first who practiced the then new style is grand, and it is a pleasure to note the vigorand spring of his lines. He cuts everything — draperyand all— in slanting lines, all in one direction, audit iswonderful
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