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Melville**ST ATOM UN lOMThe mmHmmm) tael eight. at *»m»tb A NUnnjuniIUII, latino tm » WM iMenthetbe vmUmt, lluti) w* hadOn carIfin the budjr during the degthe hall aw nearly all 111r alli am tderlt;*7 , b*nad while inThie-targe Melville is I Ike fact thatgallerybuddy omiplunenUry, it Ue W Ll*,wu thr-itfbto Mr.axbjl-ii-■ncfa ha Type*, Oa», Ae.Herman MetviUe we otamld judge to be a mm between thirty-etght and fcrty yeafa of rather efaue* toe medium etae-eMatlj e» , , built. Hie hair i* black, abort, and ta to be wiry. Hi* eroe appear to »* dart.‘ turn the* ojipearancr of»neither broad or e*thinker.' W MM ’taeduanaive, bat rather low and narrow. He baa cultivated whiakcn and tuuuelaclwue quite ex■hwhr, nearly the «e l*tug covered by . Melville'» atyb taWjeiatfaceMrlyand full ofthoee hiraote appm'tafte.1■ll*»iemusicalcityt the vvliuit. yet eometimea too muonto n -mw. He appaara perfectly at Inane «l the roa-triun, impressing one with tbt idea that it to notAt« “Unit appearance esi any alagv.”tmi lbotuu. . ''Mr. Itelrakcommencedbu lecture Hrdenying that there was any exclusiveness in set, or ratherliaod*. evinces a mitat* a»sssrmmmrmo have brewould IIIftxjffi the flatter tbinduce it«*f tbtoai1 trectorwere a Iakm andenough cIt to i4 Okl HiIdsthe thft’e;torina a«MWitb itaemployiCetr lochi1'n.tcwo.mal art*.!«technical teniM to viidea* lt;f the beautiful in art, which■ i a w, . i , . ■in murejwpp? I preen their might be exothershrle*glR* 1tnaialabtmtari he attanthe linen»«*itsIUt *1i u4 nt4appreciationirtotcd h\ thiwho liad quit*? as goudhe sppre-tbonc who were not abk* to name them, aa well as those rereed In totliW tormtodfe. And ao creations of Art might bo eqjpjrvd by thoee who are not prufesasd artist*, framed from expressing their view* Idir rein Art* lest they tiitgfa lt;flla|d*y tb but may not «»k optnsm* of such,theirbetr_Tj »f the1 set above artisttboac of t be prafcneed, eeolptur or1 ao quon like to kI am tall to the m“ Why tl by meclmilk «4tMpubBfajwhat wiIfctng iKtUirr a critic nnr a coon. * war, I haw■wen Ik to introduce my euigert, the Hculptureeut of I *n Home, with thcae remark, a nuljeet which . soma? artist*1,000to by the gate'its-, ?•wikM suppose fatangrd ttdymy to , the apnnauh to home from Naples t»e irate or 8C John, the ftmt object t»f at-tithen fewmg the group *6 ct»kwlt;s«l %umi in, surmounting the lofty lastiment of Si.sirestoneJohn Laieraugrain I or aid-Htanding in erery mated attitude, they ac-em not onl v to attest thatthe uainc of that groat the dnctHMlu*OMfear.) this to the Eternal (Itv, but likewise at its poruncii, Utl, to oflfer wwettof ta the o«| WBmpeiiy of statues winch, aatidof the human oenaus, abides tin* true ami uwdving |mpulatto() of Home. It to* indeed, among ties’ unite cittoens, ami mostly in the Vatican Museum* that the stranger forms hi* n**t pissahm and chertohod a as. wist ions. In that grand half to* will nut only make new aequaiutaiKx**. but will likewise retire many long beta* totmnosd by the historian. And ne will find many de-fK*iencie* of the historian supplied by the sculptor, who has effected in part, for the oeMrvtie* m of a old, what the memoir writer of the present day does for modsni ones. In viewing the statue.** and bases of IK-mustlienes, Titus, Socrates,Thei play Me-and stha-n.rt i.ai i nnvnumnlie net me thatknow it.and myoctote* itk+ nnmfitoappeaiKignaocraces betto their hard-wni thev wifin thatdemgnsg on•^ f Cmmr. Seneca, Nero* and others, we feqf aaennemi of icbritoon, i killpfeUyratedof reality not to be given by history;Tami although we are at first startled by aome of them from our preconceived opinirais, yet we seldom, on reflectsm, fail to ctmcede tile general likenessto that which tlie htotorton ha* tumislie*! n». The analysis of Its? marble coincides with tlwtli.HlorW-iV HW^- r ^ £1* :Tl»c statue c/ Demosthenes may lie (h*eim* i a kind of substitute for his confession*. Thus,wls* wto) flits across the jiage of Tacitus, shows forthtikenmuse-theyAmir tiledfcatedL* fell geo-fhxubeingernedthe character of the man as If the statue were in deed the man.in the bust of Socrates we might look for wis dom (lerwHiifted, but it has more the appearanceof a carnival Itead of an Irishthe purest, and yettipiL»t tlie tj ted youth •kky, w^.-n unor astosttheSOTOMf regain, Ac ayder.Cope, r forpcr-* amiI, anduHoler one |flkwsentitcel-Vanksi|ue, and uught lie taken for the ton with moral* mme of statue is oorrect. hocra-tes, in hi* earlier days, used u» to* n pnauto^i for his homely aspect. The head of Julius itosar might be mistaken flt;»r tiiat of a l*reeklent of the Erie railroad. But was not Cieaar* after | all. as a utilitarian mtoht say, a business man, who took upon hiutSidf tto* business of ruling tbe workl? Heneca looks like a pawn-broker, andlie was a tamrein bto Kfc. ;\ Nero turl the appearance of a grated,dissi|ufast young man, such as may to* n upon the race track any day. Plato bn Asif he had been to the paint or smoothing and |wrting his hair like a lady. Tiw character of these statues—their faces are famiitoriy like lt;sir own—tiie featurtw of man have undcrgune but little change- the viesK ami tiie virtues of tlie ancirats were like our own - on just as a gigantic scale, and it is to to* iftofs^l tliat tlie Hmsc tone, like Tynan dye has not been lost to the world.Nature is similar in all ages.-Tiiat Tyberiasf I heard a hnly exclaim in the Vatican: 44Why he don't look so bad ” JtoJ and almost pathetic in his jMiusinrnees he seems to be musing upon tlie gallantries and miseries of the world- the greatness and little-uess of man. The head convey* the idea of a man overpowered by great affections, tmt mote narrowlr scanned, it exhibits intellect wtflftotit manliness— melancholy witlmut pity. Tyhertos* was, perhaps, the wickedest man thatmmSm*- r *The statue which most of all in the Vaticanexcites the admiration of all visitors, is theApollo. Few sneak, thee enter tlie cabinetHIaheaI f oneor even w. HP! ^ | ,a ere to try feu convey some adequate imtira* other than artistic, of a* statue a hicb so signallyTu rHoatin-the fHildunde* hima.ixgetfaces, s tone* cift will nrg... W# ciiwh an They l« hand; g lute. B am left the door tsnce.No iU except |tietnan twho kiiwinter.Boots,Cantonand dels inc notacknowlthroughhearts.The 1will to* and SahIhtocirnovmi!inoming Reynold tricl one ■ Nortin*ime iniespftc, fiSixth at!roof on I ( am»lI. days, $1 days. $9 walk* at$o 50; i ders ftwMs the imagituitioiis of men, he mighttooktlieirthat it gives a kind of risible rtsspuuse to class of hhinttliatiuman aspirations, wiiich, acctcdiiig to Faith, caimnt be twtijr gratilkd, except inJpit oftely grander titan tto*anothertrorti His Venus di Medici, in Florence, for while aim tolovely, lie is dirioe.Tto* thought of many of tiiese beautiful tig-ures liaving Imeu ghraM to the Romans, atbeenitter*life,ut inydxviolence, aa a conrace, did not engross them, sod the flamead bymberfu*ewill7 At-t andquermg r«kindkd in most men by nature was at no tins* in Roman breasts wholly stamped out. When 1 stood in the CoUiaeutn, its mountain-ciuun* of rains waving with foliage, girding me round, asin some great green hollow in the Apfienim* range, the solitude was Ufa tliat of Sifagc M-tura; hot restoring the slisinnd arcbtv and ter-I repeoplcd them with all tlie statue* fromthe Vatican, and in tiie turf)* glen of the arenabelow I placed the lightiiig Gladiator, fftoai ttoLouvre, cmfrootiug him with the dying-orafrom the ('apitol. And as in my fancy 1 the rtdBaii husxas fear the first, tefaound' frfnaii tto*i col-Eintcdted innd.enoeHall.c aread atnkm.c arepitiless bias for tto* last, 1 felt that more than one in that host I had evoked shared not in its passions; that some hearts were there that fult tinhorror keenly as any of us would have felt (t. -The lecturer here alluded to Milton's verse-toh of wiiich reflected the polisla of tiie Milton's noem was a sort of Vaticanthe poli msrult’.A'liOTlcigar SI west His and rabli*|ien tto that roc* a liatcto they for defaced alKHit $! be their lt;excejd a vulvcr.with perPhil hrhiflutm Smith A e\cnt in Fifth Sy one of tl chorus ne perform* Spies*. 1 affair, anNswWebb, lt;Reviewthe view wi Mh r«. Wifenpoemdone into verse, lie passed a portion tf hisItalv and a year subsequent to the fend-‘ ‘ Whobadc. n■L.1iv ana a yu of the ApoUo \m resided in Rome can say how much influence these statues upon the poet?Lucifer and Ids oompanxniM cast down fromHeaven may be seen in a palace in Padua, vMichael and his boats bend over them. Tto*hate□...while faceundyingIt is liveFnouJesse Tt .1 o'clock ter and iA55The statue of \'raua, in Florence, is not of a* marble as the A^oUo^sbc Is lovely , but to*vine. Sto is nolady—no CftwFft■■a siHl ersaw$p true, When s captitto* figureofbut lt;mlvve once* o a nakeddie-• therde ton the woofDomas naturea far 14* land, girlj afa wasin surprise on tohoidmg me. Hto* aponed tlie same flNMade as the Venus, aridm upon her feature*Uiis. to show bow truthful to lutinear!nrtiirowvtw tbo (irooiM SwhttitmmWUlH-,1.■ThelengthNculjitorwomld hevi-ltoIt ahow ed thattirrijr mgtvmm the Koawam—bu( vmn mater the* ...,« 11.. „1 R'MTV, WfTw nut Ull*tetter of rhriati.iii(ymim—iiw T*tn Miltat people icnarsut , wlthoufh ther wwraauspirit? maspThe V'etican m deeerihed br—tt-e-’iw mena.Our o on the 2! peal to t of all A that harl men nnu on shore rccejifimhousea, direct inieven in i i A meric AmenS« Iftl — *«f t thoee wlGsptajleftftrttitwfrrwMM.-theto *crowdHllWuiiftitonulilwillbeeutiful word-peintuig, in __pro eminent Ijr exoeU. A One deecriptii.i *u (hrm of the nmrhie rteede. which eemned notnude to he bettriddeu, bat w if eowint to theMiee like the honee of Bli hh OthernttnM M bnt the leetnur* denaipuan of yi within mi hour.—((iron of the rtllne of ?tf f\«nprii «imlt; the indulged In, tbe Met# clue hag br » geaermi review.hut tbe tewrt, peHiepe, wiiich m*ke the ftomen mMitik QAM »m change J bie *»■«■*It ieetatuee of men,one**»rt» Uie rileet, whet w*e corrtipiiblt In tbehrip tothen the anaientn here we whiob it cimiletreT A* the Romanre.ewhct arohHeraite, doue not ^■eilt;4 autMMct whatever iemnliunnni ■ - -—-i_____“ivoip or res trierenturo of JammeiTther fir 4ml icode oO«tie-if the£*:«»IIIImn
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