Excerpt from ?sthetic and Miscellaneous, Works of Frederick Von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art, an Essay on Gothic Architecture, Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere, on the Limits of the Beautiful, on the Language and Wisdom of the Indians
The ?sthetic works of F. von Schlegel, which form a portion of the present volume, have long been known, by reputation at least, to all true lovers of art, although now for the first time translated into the English language.
His ideas and opinions on the true scope and intention of Christian art will, perhaps, be new to some readers, and must unquestionably afford matter of high interest to all. Never has the proper sphere of painting been more beautifully defined, or its lofty ideality more intelligibly and intellectually developed.
The treasures of art, concentrated in Paris during the period of Napoleon's triumphant rule, first suggested the idea and supplied the materiel of the beautiful letters, now presented to the English reader; still our author's descriptions of the paintings of the old masters there assembled, vivid and exquisitely charming us they are in themselves, are but the groundwork of a glorious superstructure; for, by the aid of those inspired paintings, he unfolds to our minds all the simplicity and purity of Christian art; its profound yet expressive symbolism and exquisite spiritual loveliness. He thus leads us through all the varied characteristics of the old masters, from the tragic wildness of Giotto, and the devout inspiration of Fra Angelico, to the wondrous allegories of Mantegna, and the during and sublime conceptions of the heaven-taught Raphael.
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