Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1881 — ITALIAN ART. [ARTICLE]

ITALIAN ART.

A tfriffcal Glance at the Paintings ' Displayed In Italy of tho o’d Masters. ,M jt ■’ , CTofTat’b RoiaeJbctter In Inter-Ocean*. £. It is of little use for a Jetter-writer prom Italy to speak of the innumerable, [paintings he s<e9, even in a fortnight's I signt-seelnv. No description can con■gey riMHIe mate idea of theta, or be rof muctSulereat to the reader. But Ho HHHPbertaiu sorts of pictures may 1 Annvap gnmft Imnrßmlnn of the taste and thoughts of the artists. Such olattlfiaptSbahoVß jlu#tithe masters F the BeQJyalssmicei sa Korn 1300 to physical pain as exist 10-day. ' ■ There is here a picture of thgM Devgupl {Jjpfc.Vultureß.’r which ligjflada many women faint away at

Holofernee are done dp •mrm&nrsr shapes. Bometlcnes one with "IL arm as if it were wpfcmMtfc or she poises It in her hand as if she was ittm&ttß *wS at his red trank, or. vigorously sawing

wn plHbsfiHpltti wpftO d«»r' 'Jbhn tiJP bead to.the tight seer by Herbdlur hrutal daughter, at bld/mi flWTdHpphllr place, *«d she waam % jedr iunic and a Trava or saftSdactiSi TteottttifiSion is presented in every .conceivable altitude, and with £^£ry Wwmm soT"? We

ghastly skeleton. ! **** &*• •at, Tjfdnlfnthfiij i a *t Sftbasf tig# eVerywhedfe.' xftr the J the arrow- Impaling him front •ftoriri [say: “One '%?rwjj .» r <glbi like, ass more arrow f lry(TOrpfasi. w . L. St torthnlamsg Isl jfMT" It IS a tradition of theohucch thatibe vigorJleon Jie^^m|*«i|s»nfc^».AsA^<iislly e'itb one band. aodsSiUfmly m»pKa be •9 holding his entire skin out over his left arm, and exhibiting itasifoftermarket, It hn't

¥ ♦ J ■' \ A picture is shown ua representing Job sci aping him-elf with a potshard. It may be a Bibical fact that Job had an unwholesome-disease, and that he aerapsd himself with a sharp-cornered piece of crockery, but it does not strike me that the subject is poetical, and the attitude, which the limper.has assigned him is certainly not beroie. Almost as bad a subject i-» Neseus, trying with the utmost agHity to escape from the nittlfta in hjsiliirt. 'Toa facet ious observer it seems really funny, which it should not. In the dome of -the Cathedral at Florence, and in tiie Oampo Santo at Pisa are two two pictures painted for “the church, and fbtended to give a religious conception pf helh They are th! work of differen t art Isis, but they agree in being very revpging. The devils are represented I i «v*ry horrible feun, color and attitude, »od they are torturing human beings with hideous g&>, aod eating little children as if they were peanut*.

Ihe picture of Sto-Lueia, who carries her eyes around on a plate in liont of {f*si4ytbUillsfci*ife eight, especially Zr' Sc^To but Worse than theee are; the paintings ture (in Venice, I beileve,J of the saiut whoio«—Miferwt out «ud fed to the ddgft. There is in the expression of Ibtoo the reallsmbfWWfjl brutality. anffj[s#te aiiaot by any means k riaJaasiiUr—nonirrn who ao-fenWHllfeW^es-in rather mo Mtmu id UgbU‘v4»wTaim4fa{l the picturee ofetbe A«aun<aat»ori fte angels

and cherubs are represeb t< d playing ou* lamborinwr^and have seen four fine pictures Penitent” in fifth h- almost x: pocket-handkerchief. <SttA (ftawteg and wonderlul soft oolorgaoocfcibgoddoes was j artlng bibs sunny hair wfth Uer taper fingers, and gaaing 3lto ft with «h explosion of anxious

Inquiry, it.was so like the hundreds of ■Urniiar^gcroes on the streets, in houseaassa. anil-en baieontes, that we have lbat “ ugh,er iWe haverseen two paintings pf tskapdd funny lOKfcJrm the theme* In both these, the Creator, represented as * «o4*a fourcorhettd hat, is litte% puUidg K.ye imtor Adam'* tehe is still in up as to per &jw< r extremities are “coming ou ." oie of our party, the gentlemen fr un I’lMsbunr, Rg'd “feet 100 l*rgf>: got h.. k d into bis vibe,’»