Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 4
Little Journeys To The Homes Of Eminent Painters
Elbert Hubbard
Memorial Edition
Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters,who are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York
New York
1916
CONTENTS
MICHELANGELO
REMBRANDT
RUBENS
MEISSONIER
TITIAN
ANTHONY VAN DYCK
FORTUNY
ARY SCHEFFER
FRANCOIS MILLET
JOSHUA REYNOLDS
LANDSEER
GUSTAVE DORE
MICHELANGELO
By long experience? Shapes that seem alive,
Wrought in hard mountain marble, will survive
Their maker, whom the years to dust return!
Thus to effect, cause yields. Art hath her turn,
And triumphs over Nature. I, who strive with sculpture,
Know this well: her wonders live
In spite of time and death, those tyrants stern.
So I can give long life to both of us
In either way, by color or by stone,
Making the semblance of thy face and mine.
Centuries hence when both are buried,
Thus thy beauty and my sadness shall be shown,
And men shall say, "For her 'twas wise to pine."
MICHELANGELO
"Call me by my pet name," wroteElizabeth Barrett Browning, in oneof those incomparable sonnets ofwhich the Portuguese never heard.And the task yet remains for somepsychologist to tell us why, whenwe wish to bestow the highest honor,coupled with familiar affection, wecall the individual by a given name.
Young men and maidens will understand my allusion;and I hope this book will not suffer the dire fate of fallinginto the hands of any one who has forgotten thedays of his youth.
In addressing the one we truly revere, we drop all prefixand titles. Soldiers marching under the banner of abeloved leader ever have for him a name of their own.What honor and trust were once compressed into thediminutive, "Little Corporal" or Kipling's "Bobs";or, to come down to something even more familiar to us,say, "Old Abe" and "Little Phil"!
The earth is a vast graveyard where untold millionsof men lie buried, but out of the myriads who pass intoforgetfulness every deca