. The Italy of the Italians. ous fearthat he could not meet the requirements. It was whileengaged on the preliminary work that Gemito first showedsigns of brain sickness, and after a while it was needful tokeep him for several years in an asylum. He has now leftthis abode, but he still lives a life of strict seclusion andrefuses to see any one outside his family, or hear news of theouter world. His intellect is quite clear at times, but hisdesire to work in sculpture has left him. It is nineteen yearssince he touched clay. He still speaks at moments ofexecuting some capolavoro, but for the pre
. The Italy of the Italians. ous fearthat he could not meet the requirements. It was whileengaged on the preliminary work that Gemito first showedsigns of brain sickness, and after a while it was needful tokeep him for several years in an asylum. He has now leftthis abode, but he still lives a life of strict seclusion andrefuses to see any one outside his family, or hear news of theouter world. His intellect is quite clear at times, but hisdesire to work in sculpture has left him. It is nineteen yearssince he touched clay. He still speaks at moments ofexecuting some capolavoro, but for the present he only drawsand sketches works full of power and grace. Achille dOrsi is also an independent artist, who has made a fair name for himself with his statues, The Parasites and Thy Neighbour, both with a social- Achille dOrsi. economic bias; Vincenzo Alfani loves to depict the joys of motherhood ; Gargiuolo models graceful heads of women, girls and children. These and many others are all exponents of that personal and, so. Sculpture and Architecture 133 to speak, intimate note which is the hall-mark of contemporaryNeapolitan art, reflecting the multi-coloured and yet uniformnature of its meridional population, and thereby renderingNeapolitan sculpture the most picturesque possessed bymodem Italy. A personal note but of a very different nature pervades thework of the Tuscans. Despite the atrocities that defile the shop-windows of the tourist-haunted streets ofSculptors Florence, Tuscany can point with pride to afew really good artists, as, for example, thestatues of the late Pio Fedi, whose celebrated group, TheRape of Polyxena, adorns the Loggia dei Lanzi, and is heldby half the sightseers as a classic work like its neighbours,or the groups of Dupre, whose Cain and Abel occupy anhonoured place in the Pitti Palace amid the productions ofthe greatest masters of all time. As of old, so to-day, grace,and measure and artistic sobriety distinguish the Tuscanproductions. But among
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