The midsummer of Italian art . keLeonardos, was probably painted from him we call Perugino and Leonardo thereis an elegant, princely figure, with a spiked coroneton his head. He cannot be identified, as only thelower portion of his face is visible, and thereforemust have been introduced for artistic effect. Hisneck is drawn with two curved lines of exquisitegrace, and some mathematician ought to examinethose curves and study their properties. It is possi-ble that a human being might have such a neck,just as an oval face is possible; but this personageis an ideal. In the School o
The midsummer of Italian art . keLeonardos, was probably painted from him we call Perugino and Leonardo thereis an elegant, princely figure, with a spiked coroneton his head. He cannot be identified, as only thelower portion of his face is visible, and thereforemust have been introduced for artistic effect. Hisneck is drawn with two curved lines of exquisitegrace, and some mathematician ought to examinethose curves and study their properties. It is possi-ble that a human being might have such a neck,just as an oval face is possible; but this personageis an ideal. In the School of Athens the two most prominentfigures are described by Vasari as Plato and Aris-totle, and this statement is supported indirectly bythe female figure above the painting, who is labelledCognitio Causarum; but some connoisseurs haveconcluded that these two dramatis personce are in-tended for Peter and Paul, and that they are repre-sented here expounding the doctrines of Christianityto the learned men of Greece and Rome. If this. ENTOMBMENT, bv RAPHAELBorghese Gallery, Rome Raphaers Dramatic Pictures. 241 interpretation, however, be correct, in what way isthe motto Cognitio Causaruni to be explained ? Herman Grimms argument for Peter and Paul isthat CciQ. persona formerly supposed to be Aristotle isstanding with his arm raised in a gesture like thatof an orator, and St. Paul was the great pleader ofthe Christian cause, surpassing all the disciples ofChrist in eloquence and education. But how arewe to understand the names Etica and Fisico whichare inscribed on the two volumes held by these prom-inent individuals ? Ethics might bear some relationto the teaching of Paul and Peter, but physics couldnot possibly do so. These inscriptions apply accu-rately to the writings of Plato and Aristotle, one ofwhom may be said to have founded modern ethics,and the other, through his analysis of the reasoningfaculty, opened the highway to modern corresponds perfectly with the motto
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