[267] Und nichts für sich hat. That is to say reciprocity is of its essence. "Give and it shall be given unto you."
[268] Die Gestalt may possibly refer to the suppliant.
[269] The Sistine Madonna.
[270] A good instance is the great Crucifixion of Fra Angelico in the S. Mark convent in Florence.
[271] And a painter like Carlo Dolci or the Caracci are even worse.
[272] It would perhaps have been more instructive to consider the difference of temperament in the artist when dealing with such subjects and its influence on his treatment. It is very far from an obvious truth that physiognomy upon which the conflict of soul-life is most marked loses thereby the characteristics of beauty. There is the beauty of gnarled oak no less than that of the rose and the lily.
[273] Das Beisichseyn der Liebe im Absoluten. Lit., the self-inherency cf Love within the Absolute.
[274] Sondern auch selbständig. He seems to mean that they receive from this relation the subsistent individuality of spirit. This reference to landscape is obviously very perfunctory and insufficient.
[275] See vol. I, p. 220.
[276] Mit dem in sich particularisirten Innern. With the ideal complexus of particular objects as related to one subject. Their particularity is due to their characterization, and that is dependent on idealization.