The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . nument ofhis genius. The frescoes of the Sistine chapel,the wonder and admiration of that and suc-ceeding ages, had been achieved. Almost atthe close of a lengthened life, not unmixedwith many trials and disappointments, still thelove and devotion to his art burned as warmwithin him, as when, buoyant with youthful hope and energy, he left his parental home, at Caprese,to enter the school of Gherlandaio—
The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . nument ofhis genius. The frescoes of the Sistine chapel,the wonder and admiration of that and suc-ceeding ages, had been achieved. Almost atthe close of a lengthened life, not unmixedwith many trials and disappointments, still thelove and devotion to his art burned as warmwithin him, as when, buoyant with youthful hope and energy, he left his parental home, at Caprese,to enter the school of Gherlandaio—to learn to draw. It was this that had sustained him, andmade him what he was 5 and, it must be thus that excellence in art is to be wooed and won. It isthis that must be cultivated, and kept alive for ever, in its pursuit: and it can be done — nay,more—even where its existence may appear to be doubtful, and almost hopeless, it may bedeveloped by proper culture. It is an attribute bestowed on all, in degrees of capacity for itscultivation, as in all other gifts with which the Creator has endowed the perfection of his works,immortal man, and should, no more than they, be >*S: 116. In concluding the elementary portion of this work, it is hoped that the effort to placebefore the American public a popular system of instruction in the first principles of design, howeverincomplete it may be, may have a tendency, not only to awaken an interest in the subject, but toshow, at the same time, how easy it is to learn to draw. Let those who desire to acquire this beau- 112 RUDIMENTS OF DRAWING. tiful and valuable art, but give proper attention to the principles and practice recommended, not bya few hasty trials, but by carefully following the routine of advancement, from a simple straightline, to the point now reached j and all that they have yet to do, will be both plain and easilyacquired. As a primary and elementary work on drawing, our task is done 5 and it will not
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