Part 11 (2/2)

18 Trade The cart and horses

19 And now the sculpture over the door of the tower The Lamb of God, expresses the Law of Sacrifice, and door of ascent to heaven And then follow the fraternal arts of the Christian world

20 Geole sculpture, introductory to the following series We shall see presently why this science must be the foundation of the rest

21 Sculpture

22 Painting

23 Graht, and ht (or force), and ic The laws of nuht

27 The Invention of Harreat division of pre-Christian and Christian arts, marked by the door of the Tower; and then the divisions into four successive historical periods, les--that you have a perfect plan of human civilization The first side is of the no how to assert its supre creatures, herbs, and beasts Then the second side is the fixed ho race and country; then the third side, the huer races; then the fourth side, the harathered into the fold of Christ

Now let us return to the first angle, and examine piece by piece with care

1 _Creation of Man_

Scarcely disengaged from the clods of the earth, he opens his eyes to the face of Christ Like all the rest of the sculptures, it is less the representation of a past fact than of a constant one It is the continual state ofGod

Christ holds the book of His Law--the 'Law of life'--in His left hand

The trees of the garden above are,--central above Christ, pal, and a large-leaved ground fruit (what?) complete the myth of the Food of Life

As decorative sculpture, these trees are especially to be noticed, with those in the two next subjects, and the Noah's vine as differing in treate, of which perfect examples are seen in 16 and 17 Giotto's branches are set in close sheaf-like clusters; and every mass disposed with extreme formality of radiation The leaves of these first, on the contrary, are arranged with careful concealment of their ornamental system, so as to look inartificial This is done so studiously as to become, by excess, a little unnatural!--Nature herself is n is very noble, and every leaf ht and sufficient finish; not done to show skill, nor with etfulness of main subject, but in tender completion and harmony with it

Look at the subdivisions of the pallass

The others are less finished in this than in the next subject Man himself incomplete, the leaves that are created with hiers yet short; growing?)

2 _Creation of Woman_

Far, in its essential qualities, the transcendent sculpture of this subject, Ghiberti's is only a dainty elaboration and beautification of it, losing its solerace

The older sculptor thinks of the Uses of Woers and sins, before he thinks of its beauty; but, were the arm not lost, the quiet naturalness of this head and breast of Eve, and the bending grace of the subuidance by the hand of Christ--(_grasping_ the arm, note, for full support)--would be felt to be far beyond Ghiberti's in beauty, as in mythic truth

The line of her body joins with that of the serpent-ivy round the tree trunk above her: a double myth--of her fall, and her support afterwards by her husband's strength ”Thy desire shall be to thy husband” The fruit of the tree--double-set filbert, telling nevertheless the happy equality

The leaves in this piece are finished with consummate poetical care and precision Above Adam, laurel (a virtuous woether; the fig, for fruitful household joy (under thy vine and fig-tree [Footnote: Coera, February, 1877]--but vine properly the masculine joy); and the fruit taken by Christ for type of all naturally growing food, in his own hunger

Exa of these leaves, and the insertion on their steht: and observe that in all cases the sculptor works the n; look how he breaks variously deeper into it, beginning fro up to the left into full depth above the shoulder