FLAXMAN’S LECTURES ON SCULPTURE
A review of John Flaxman’s (1755–1826) Lectures on Sculpture (1829). The review was republished in Criticisms on Art (1843–4) and in Essays on the Fine Arts (1873). Flaxman had been professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy from 1810. In his Memoirs of William Hazlitt (II. 269) Mr. W. C. Hazlitt gives a number of marginal notes made by Hazlitt upon his copy of Flaxman’s Lectures probably with a view to this article.
PAGE [335]. Torregiano. Pietro Torrigiano (c. 1470–1522), the Florentine sculptor who broke Michael Angelo’s nose. He came to England in 1509. ‘A city,’ etc. S. Matthew, V. 14. [336]. ‘High and palmy.’ Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 1. ‘Growing with its growth.’ Pope, Essay on Man, II. 136. [341]. Sir Anthony Carlisle. Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768–1840), the surgeon, studied for a time at the Royal Academy, and wrote an essay ‘On the Connection between Anatomy and the Fine Arts,’ to which Hazlitt probably refers. [344]. ‘To make Gods,’ etc. Cf. Genesis, i. 26. ‘Hitherto,’ etc. Job, xxxviii. 11. [345]. ‘The labour,’ etc. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 3. [348]. ‘Shreds and patches.’ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 4. ‘Upon her eyebrows,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, Book II. Canto III. St. 25. [349]. ‘By their own beauty,’ etc. Cf. ‘By our own spirits are we deified.’ Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence, 47. [350]. ‘The scale,’ etc. Cf. Paradise Lost, VIII. 591–592. [351]. Incendio del Borgo. Raphael’s fresco in the Vatican.