. The art of the Italian renaissance; a handbook for students and travellers. ss productions of the ^lannerists. Once more there was originalityof idea and sentiment, based on the real experience of the artist. TheKiitotnbtiiott in the \atican (iallery may ajipeal to few of the modernpul)lic bv its main features, but the reasons nurst have been good whichinduced an artist who felt such gigantic powers in himself as the young 198 THE ART OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE Rubens, to cop\ it on a large scale. If Me siniplv look at a single figurelike that of the weeping girl, we shall find in it a shoul
. The art of the Italian renaissance; a handbook for students and travellers. ss productions of the ^lannerists. Once more there was originalityof idea and sentiment, based on the real experience of the artist. TheKiitotnbtiiott in the \atican (iallery may ajipeal to few of the modernpul)lic bv its main features, but the reasons nurst have been good whichinduced an artist who felt such gigantic powers in himself as the young 198 THE ART OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE Rubens, to cop\ it on a large scale. If Me siniplv look at a single figurelike that of the weeping girl, we shall find in it a shoulder, painted withsuch colour and such light, that all the false pretensions of Mannerismmelt awav like an evil dream in the beams of this sunshine. Once morethe world becomes rich and io\-ous. Tlie Xatin-alism of the seventeenthcentury, and not the Holognese ^Vcademv «as the true heir of theRenaissance. Why it was doomed to succinnb in the conflict with the• ideal art of the Eclectics is one of the most interesting questions whichcan be propounded in the historv of The Aduratinii uf llie slKiihenls, l,y p. Tilnildi. PART II THE NE^V FEELING I\ the Campo Santo of Iisa, Benozzo (iozzoli depicts the (>fXuitli, among other incidents of Old Testament h*istor\-. The storv wastokl witli the brcadtli and detail characteristic of the yuattrocentistnarrator, A\iio shows his pleasure in representing the course of thepatriarchs debauch as circumstantiall) as possible. He Ixgins at the verybeginning : it is a tine afternoon in autumn, and the old man takeshis two grandchildren with him to see the vintage. A\e are shown themen and women pici<ing the grapes, tilling the baskets with them, andtreading them in the vats. The scene is enlivened l)v happv creatureseverywhere; birds perch near the tiny pools, and one of the childrenbusies himself with a dog. The grandfather stands and enjoys thecheerful scene. jMeantime the new wine has been pressed and is handedto the
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