The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . andenthusiasm was excited in Leighton as he pored over suchthings is vouched for by this page (and others similar ofdifferent flowers), exquisite portraits of every view of theclycamen ; faint notes in writing recording the colours whichhis pencil failed to do. Referring to his journey through the Tyrol, in 1852,Leighton writes: I had been dwelling with unweariedadmiration on the exquisite grace and beauty of the details,as it were, of Nature; every little flower of the field hadbecome to me a new source of delight; the very blades ofgrass appe
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . andenthusiasm was excited in Leighton as he pored over suchthings is vouched for by this page (and others similar ofdifferent flowers), exquisite portraits of every view of theclycamen ; faint notes in writing recording the colours whichhis pencil failed to do. Referring to his journey through the Tyrol, in 1852,Leighton writes: I had been dwelling with unweariedadmiration on the exquisite grace and beauty of the details,as it were, of Nature; every little flower of the field hadbecome to me a new source of delight; the very blades ofgrass appeared to me in a new light. Not only his artistic temperament, but also circumstances,had guided Leightons instincts into the worship of beauty beauty such as can be conceived alone by the artistic tem-perament—as the divinest element in creation and one tobe reverenced beyond all others; and when face to facewith Nature, having no desire but to record that reverence STUDIES OF CYCLAMEN. Tivoli, October 1856Leighton House Collection TO aaiQUic.
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