The
best thing he said against the use of color in marble was to the effect
that the whiteness removed the object represented into a sort of
spiritual region, and so gave chaste permission to those nudities which
would otherwise suggest immodesty. I have myself felt the truth of this
in a certain sense of shame as I looked at Gibson's tinted Venus.
He took his leave at about eight o'clock, being to make a call on the
Bryants, who are at the Hotel de New York, and also on Mrs. Browning, at
Casa Guidi.
END OF VOL. I.
PASSAGES FROM THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTE-BOOKS
OF
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
VOL. II.
PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS IN FRANCE AND ITALY.
FLORENCE (Continued).
June 8th.--I went this morning to the Uffizi gallery. The entrance is
from the great court of the palace, which communicates with Lung' Arno at
one end, and with the Grand Ducal Piazza at the other. The gallery is in
the upper story of the palace, and in the vestibule are some busts of the
princes and cardinals of the Medici family,--none of them beautiful, one
or two so ugly as to be ludicrous, especially one who is all but buried
in his own wig.
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