Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ated by Rome, Henry theFourth and Louis of Bavaria. The church contains valuable objects in gold and silver,and many interesting antiquities, but its most precious treasure is the history that belongsto it. The fame of Santa Maria delle Grazie rests chiefly on its possession of Leonardo daVincis Last Supper: which, however, is not in the church itself, but in the refectory ofthe convent belonging to it. The story of the vicissitudes this great fresco has undergone,and the noble figures which fill it, are known to everybody, even to those who havenever visited Italy. But despite all the injuries it has sustained, the original makes animpression which no copy can approach. Barbarous generations, whether clothed in coatof mail or monkish cowl, have cruelly assailed it; but the traces of a sacred genius havenot been utterly effaced, nor will they be, so long as but one outline of the great designremains visible. In the evening hours, when noise and movement awake throughout all Italy, the
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MILAXE.SE lady. 6. •it Of i MILAN. 97 pulse of life begins to beat quicker in Milan also; and then a phenomenon, which we havescarcely named hitherto, but which is of high importance in Italy,—I mean the Theatre,—presses itself on our attention. It must be owned that people do not so much go thitherwith an idea of seriously enjoying art, as attracted by the excitement of a crowd; but how-ever this may be, actors and singers are an indispensable element among these people. Andthe artists themselves are more sensitive to this fact, than to the supercilious indifference

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