Lecture delivered by Miss Lochr at the Union Church Lecture Hall on the 6th inst.
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Donatello wis the firs. great sculptor of the Renaissance, He introduced the practice of foreshortening:; that is, alapting figures to the pos occupy. Ho was of nature, and a persistent worker. influence was felt the length and of Italy, and he it was who trained the hand of that pure and sweet Desiderio.
natello's studio is still pointed out to visitors to Florence. A full-length statue of him stands among the illustrious of his native city, just below the Uiizi gallery. Ho, the reviver of -rcnlptnre. is placed next to Giotto, the early reviver of puint= ing. He is in select company, with Mishel Angelo, Leonardo da Vinei, Dante, and many others. Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to the new world, famed for ig also there. How many up into their fu ing to imprint their features on my memory! Andrea Vorocchio, son of a baker, was a pupil of Donatello, and the most distinguished of his tolley Althiugh he tus done some exceedingly fine work, he will always be more famous for having been the master of Leonardo arid Porngino than for anything he ever did himself, His colossal statue of Colleoni, the grand old dered "the most magnificent' equestrian statue of all The-graceful utile statue by him in the cortile of the Palzay Vecchio seems to light up the whole dark court. There is a fountain in the contre of this court, and in the middle of the basin, perched upon " pedestal, stands the small bronze figure of a boy grasp dolphin. From the nostrils of the fish flows water brought hither from the Boboli Gsrdens by pipes across the Ponto Vecchio. It was first east for Lorenzo il Maguifico for his villa of Careggi, that ideal suburban retreat, but was afterwards removed to its present position.
Now we come to painting, the fai Aaugliter of civilisation. Almost " handred years had passod since the death of Giotto, whose hand had led this daughter onto of the darkness of the Byzantine School, and another was needed to lead her still farther into the dazzling eunshine of the golden day. This hand was Masaccio's, He toro aside the veil, and portrayed man true to nature, as he
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