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Diccionario Historico de los mas illustres Profesores de las Bellas Artes en España, compuesto por D. Juan Agustin Cean Bermudez, y publicado por la Real Academia de S. Fernando. (Historical Dictionary of the most celebrated Professors of the Fine Arts in Spain. By Don J. A. Cean Bermudez.* Published by the Royal Academy of St. Ferdinand.) Madrid. 1800. 6 tom. 12mo. In comparing the different results of human genius, we can scarcely avoid remarking the contrast between the progress of poetry and the fine arts on the one hand, and that of the exact sciences and their application on the other. The former class seem to strike root we know not how, shoot up unperceived, reach their maturity, blossom and perish, without our being able satisfactorily to account for their rise or assign the causes of their decline. They are aided indeed or retarded by external circumstances, but their constitution sometimes seems so capricious, that the very efforts made to foster them only accelerate their decay, and political events often produce results totally opposite to what we should have anticipated. On the contrary, in mechanical art, successive generations go on painfully adding grain to grain; the knowledge of the previous age forms a foundation on which that of their successors may be erected, and the amount gained is in proportion to the facilities afforded and the labour bestowed. It is, in a great measure, from this mysterious nature of all works of imagination, that the history of ancient and modern art derives its interest. We are aware that it is not unusual among a considerable and intelligent class in this country to treat all such subjects as trifling; only having reference to the amusement of mankind, and utterly unconnected with their happiness; as if the two things were or could be disjoined; or as if the cultivation of the highest pleasures of the intellect were not of as much import * For a biographical notice of Cean Bermudez, see our VIIth Vol. p. 272. VOL. XIII. NO. XXVI. S ance to the species as many of the improvements of mechanics or agriculture. If man be to contemplate nothing but necessaries, range would indeed be limited: his 66 our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's."-Lear, Act II. Sc. 4. If it be once granted that luxuries deserve our serious attention, we confess we do not see why those of the mind should not merit consideration as much at least as those of the body; except indeed that the class which is capable of appreciating the former is the less numerous; but, on the other hand, it is surely the interest of all that this number should be enlarged, and those powers of enjoyment cultivated which may be said neither to admit of excess, nor be in the same degree exposed to decay. Again, if the history of the human mind and its developement by different means and under different circumstances be an object of general interest, art and its progress is of the highest importance. Man is a compound being; and to estimate properly the character of an age or nation, we must know how they felt, as well as how they reasoned. Now we have no means of learning this but from the different branches of imaginative art,— poetry, painting, sculpture, and music; not distinct streams, but rather separate channels, each filled with one and the same current from a common source, the impressions and feelings of the people to whom they belong. The language they utter is in each case the same; the character in which it is written is all that varies. In short, that place which Professor Sedgewick, in his late eloquent Discourse, claims for the imagination in systems of metaphysics, we would vindicate for her productions in the history of the human race. Thus, it is not the literature of ancient Greece which will convey singly the complex idea of the genius of that wonderful people, but the remains of their writers viewed in conjunction with the remains of their art. Their epic and dramatic poetry, their bas-reliefs and their statues, bear equally the impress of the refined taste and unrivalled sense of beauty which marks their national character. This is, however, a path still untrodden by the majority of English scholars, who, with their eyes fixed on the details of grammar and metre, have neglected one half of the sources of information respecting the people whom they professed to study. Modern art, though perhaps it has never been so interwoven with the feelings of a whole nation, has still been connected with Christian worship, and is almost as necessary a subject of consideration in history as that of the ancients. The painting, sculpture and architecture of Italy have assumed, as they deserved, the first place, and may |