The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures . and inartistic ar-rangement Of unpleasant beasts. The Genius of Art, Number 422, is painted byRiminaldi, and is represented by a youth, nude, andwith wings; the attributes of the arts are lying allabout him in disorder on the floor. His attitude isextremely lithe and graceful. At the left side liea lute, a spear, and a rapier, while at the right standson a higher plane a globe made of framework,wreathed with laurels; in this composition thereoccur also scales
The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures . and inartistic ar-rangement Of unpleasant beasts. The Genius of Art, Number 422, is painted byRiminaldi, and is represented by a youth, nude, andwith wings; the attributes of the arts are lying allabout him in disorder on the floor. His attitude isextremely lithe and graceful. At the left side liea lute, a spear, and a rapier, while at the right standson a higher plane a globe made of framework,wreathed with laurels; in this composition thereoccur also scales, palettes, and brushes, bows andarrows and a helmet, and other bits of Genius himself is seated on a fragment of archi-tectural ruin. Furinis Adam and Eve is something of a de-parture from the usual treatment of the and his wife are confessing on their kneesand in attitudes of pleading, to the Almighty, who,having been walking in the garden, is seated underthe fatal tree. The representation of the heavenlyFather is entirely human, — he looks as if he mighthave been intended for one of the apostles. Fran-. ALLEGORICAL HEADBy Furini; in the Stanza of Flora Ube 5tan3a of jf lota 347 cesco Furini was called the Guido and the Albanoof the Florentine school. He was born about 1600,and lived until 1649. He was original, in spite ofthe fact that he was a great student of other mas-ters; he did not allow any traces of their workto creep into his own manner; rather, he enteredinto their spirit, and then allowed his own individ-uality to have free play. He studied and plannedhis pictures for a long time, but the actual renderingof them was a quick process with him. He wasordained priest when he was forty. He handled hisflesh tints with great mellowness, and in his laterpictures this mannerism becomes so marked thatthere seems to be almost a mist about his beautiful model for Eve in this picture appearsagain in an allegorical head which hangs directly
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