Word: italian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Italian Journey" was prepared after the first three volumes of "Dichtung und Wahrheit" had appeared. It is an easy running narrative, composed of journals and letters to various people. The work appeared in two volumes, the original manuscripts from which Goethe made up the first volume have just been published, and it is seen that he cut out the personal elements in preparing the work for the public. Goethe made a rare use of his eyes in travelling-not that he saw everything, but it is wonderful what an amount he did see. It is interesting, too, to note...
...measure owing to the scarcity of orders for paintings, and hence, artists, in order to support themselves, were driven to take up the then popular engraving. Still the German engravers retained their love for paintings, and their pictures resemble painting in the mode of treatment, in contrast to the Italian engravings, which are merely reproductions of pen and ink drawings. This desire of the Germans to make their engravings look like paintings led to a very important advance in the art. Hitherto all the lines, with the exception of the outline, had been straight, but now the German school...