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Joseph Guarnerius, his work and his master [Andreas Gisalberti], 1906
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1JOSEPH GUARNERIUS:
2HIS WORK AND HIS MASTER.
4CHAPTER I.
6COINCIDENCES IN THE FINE ARTS AT VARIOUS TIMES AND PLACES—RISE OF THE SCIENCE AND ART OF MUSIC—THE INVENTION OF THE VIOLIN AND ITS PROGRESS AS A WORK OF ART—THE MASTERS AT DIFFERENT WORKING CENTRES.
8IT is more than a little remarkable that in connection with the sister arts and sciences of music, painting, sculpture, and literature,—these not all nor confined to one place,—the great masters who by the world's verdict take precedence and tower above all their fellows, go by twos and twos.
10Pictured in the minds of their admirers they are rivals, notwithstanding that they may never have known each other personally, or may not have been contemporaneous in the strictest sense of the term.
12As illustrations we may trace far back in the historical records of the world's most famous men the names of Apelles, Phaedias, Socrates and Plato of ancient Greece, noting on our way upwards the luminaries of the Renaissance, Titian and Tintoretto among the Venetian, with Raphael and Michael Angelo of the Florentine school of painters. Nearer to our own time come the great masters of melody and harmony, George Frederick Handel and Sebastian Bach, followed no long time after by Mozart and Beethoven.
14Whether the coincidences be apparent only, and the
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