. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. under thespecious term common-sense. Yet through this grosser appre-hension of things there is ever to be detected a spiritual clair-voyance which lingers in their blood, as originally derived fromOriental sources. Purged of the worst traits of Asiatic supersti-tion and mysticism, it still speaks intelligibly to us after its longsleep. The greatest puzzle of Etruscan art is that extraordinarybronze found at Arezzo, now in the Uffizi gallery, called, in an-tiquarian despair, the Chimera. It has the body of a lio
. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. under thespecious term common-sense. Yet through this grosser appre-hension of things there is ever to be detected a spiritual clair-voyance which lingers in their blood, as originally derived fromOriental sources. Purged of the worst traits of Asiatic supersti-tion and mysticism, it still speaks intelligibly to us after its longsleep. The greatest puzzle of Etruscan art is that extraordinarybronze found at Arezzo, now in the Uffizi gallery, called, in an-tiquarian despair, the Chimera. It has the body of a lion, outof the back of which grows the head of a goat poisoned by thebite of a serpent, which forms the tail of this composite beast,whose entire body is beginning to show the effects of the venomof its own extremity. If it admit of interpretation, I should saythat the lion repjesented the strength and riches of Etruriancivilization, the goat its corrupting luxury, and the reptile thefatal sting of sin that finally cast it down into the mire, neverto rise again among the
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