Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) . ntent with Turin, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, and copious memoranda of the Diary show how carefully andcritically she studied the works of art in all these places. Imust find room for what she says of the famous Titian in theBorghese Palace, generally known as Sacred and Profane Love,for the sake of the ingenious suggestion it contains as to thepurpose of the painter—a suggestion which found favour withmore than one of our principal artists. Ma?j 2, 1881.—Went to the Borghese Gallery. Fresh delightin the fine Titian, which they call Sacred and Profane Love;but
Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) . ntent with Turin, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, and copious memoranda of the Diary show how carefully andcritically she studied the works of art in all these places. Imust find room for what she says of the famous Titian in theBorghese Palace, generally known as Sacred and Profane Love,for the sake of the ingenious suggestion it contains as to thepurpose of the painter—a suggestion which found favour withmore than one of our principal artists. Ma?j 2, 1881.—Went to the Borghese Gallery. Fresh delightin the fine Titian, which they call Sacred and Profane Love;but there is nothing profane about it. One figure to my mindis as sacred as the other. Look at the heads, the faces ! Theundraped womans head is, in my opinion, even more chaste, ifpossible, than the carefully dressed figure, which has the handsgloved. The likeness is so remarkable, that I believe Titianmeant both to be the same woman, showing how noble and chasteshe could look under any aspect. There is a vase, a small lamp. 1881.] THE MEININGEN COMPANY OF ACTOKS. 373 burning, it may be holy oil, in the hand; look at this, and theexpression of the face, so grave, so earnest! Where can you findthe profane love 1 What a pity something has happened to theright hand, on which she rests! It is completely distorted. Allelse is so composed, lovely, and satisfying. But you easily forgetthe hand. We reached home on the 20th May, full of pleasant reminis-cences, my vfife very much fatigued, and delighted, as mostof us are, after a foreign excursion, to see how green, andfresh, and homelike all the landscape looked between Doverand London. * This season the actors of the Meiningen Company, precededby a great reputation, appeared at Drury Lane. Unfortunatelymy wife did not see their representation of Julius Ccesar, theirbest work. Of what she did see she writes :— July 2.—Went to see the Germans act TJie Winters the early part was delightful, the mise en seme and groupingper
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