Capitolo 59
from current art and the current criticism that them _could doesn't see
Botticelli, however firm their tried to him. He was a book sealed to ours
fathers. In those days it asked for a brave, a vigorous and an original
thinker to discover some worth in some painter in front of Raffael, except
perhaps, as Jeweler wisely remarked, Perugino. The man that went then
to the offices or the Pitti, after having admired as in duty limits his Tall
Rebirth dominates, you are suddenly found compared with the Judith
or the Calumny, and straightways wondered that way of strange wild
beasts that these were that some first alienated Tuscan had painted once
has a good time in a shiny interval. They was not in the least ones as the
Correggios and the Guidoses, the Lawrences and the Opieses that the men of
that duration had formed their taste on, and it accepted as them you sole
artistic standard. To taut people on on pure David and
Thorvaldsen, the Spring to the Belle Arti is due to naturally seem
as a wild whim of the madness. The Zeitgeist went then all in the
direction of lifeless and cold correctness; the idea that the painter's soul
counted for anything in art it was an undreamt of heresy.
On Your way back in Paris of the day, you stop a night to Amiens and takes
the Cathedral seriously. Half the grandiose inside of that glorious
pole of the thirteenth century is crusted and horrendous gewgaw overlaid
the monstrosities of the most garish Bernini and the period of _baroque_. There them
sits in decomposed way their interfering legs and you wave their theatrical wings that glorify to
the absolute destruction of every rest and consistence in the one of the
nobler and more perfect buildings of Europe. Today, any child
worker can see to a look as ugly and as disfiguring that loosened
creatures are; it is impossible to look at them without saying to
itself: "Because it doesn't do them they make plaza cleaning up all this tall-faluting the garbage, and
I/you/he/she allow us to consider the true columns and arcs and benches their creators