Passages From The French And Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. (Fiscle Part-I)
Von: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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. I At First Travelled Slowly Through The Whole Extent Of
This Long, Long Gallery, Which Occupies The Entire Length Of The Palace
On Both Sides Of The Court, And Is Full Of Sculpture And Pictures. The
Latter, Being Opposite To The Light, Are Not Seen To The Best Advantage;
But It Is The Most Perfect Collection, In A Chronological Series, That I
Have Seen, Comprehending Specimens Of All The Masters Since Painting
Began To Be An Art. Here Are Giotto, And Cimabue, And Botticelli, And
Fra Angelico, And Filippo Lippi, And A Hundred Others, Who Have Haunted
Me In Churches And Galleries Ever Since I Have Been In Italy, And Who
Ought To Interest Me A Great Deal More Than They Do.
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. I At First Travelled Slowly Through The Whole Extent Of
This Long, Long Gallery, Which Occupies The Entire Length Of The Palace
On Both Sides Of The Court, And Is Full Of Sculpture And Pictures. The
Latter, Being Opposite To The Light, Are Not Seen To The Best Advantage;
But It Is The Most Perfect Collection, In A Chronological Series, That I
Have Seen, Comprehending Specimens Of All The Masters Since Painting
Began To Be An Art. Here Are Giotto, And Cimabue, And Botticelli, And
Fra Angelico, And Filippo Lippi, And A Hundred Others, Who Have Haunted
Me In Churches And Galleries Ever Since I Have Been In Italy, And Who
Ought To Interest Me A Great Deal More Than They Do.
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