Scan 175
Joseph Guarnerius, his work and his master [Andreas Gisalberti], 1906
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 107. See the scan on archive.org.
1on the contrary, of thoughtful, earnest disposition and intellectual activity.
3During the period now engaging our attention, there is sufficient indication given as to what was possible in the future.
5There is present, perhaps for the first time, an inkling of the open, bold and firm swing of line at the waist, coupled with the fullest part being placed above the central portion, giving what might be thought a hint of a desire to go in opposition to what was being done every day around him, and which was not in accordance with his natural tendencies, artistically considered.
7The conception had occurred in a somewhat rude or rugged manner to early makers of the Brescian school, but in such a way as might lead us to think it anything but the outcome of carefully-calculated efforts and repeated trials. The artist seems to have been intellectually alive to all the variations of type introduced by contemporaries and deceased makers, and was doubtless carried onward by an intense determination to introduce something in design that had not been done before, but it was not yet mature within him—further trials were necessary.
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