The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton (1906) (14779241724)

Identifier: lifelettersworko01barr (find matches)
Title: The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Barrington, Russell, Mrs., d. 1933
Subjects: Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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which I thanked you heartily for the beautifulcoat received in Venice. I have already stayed here in Florence eight days, andthough I have not worked very arduously, I have yet thoroughlyenjoyed myself, and also, I hope, learned something from thelovely things that I am seeing again here; meanwhile thereremains much for me to see in the two days that I have stillto stay, amongst others the Capella of Benozzo Gozzoli in thePalazzo Riccardi, a work which I love excessively. To see theold Florentine school again is a thing which always enchantsme anew, for one can never be sated with seeing the noblesweetness, the childlike simplicity, allied with high manly feeling,which breathes in it. But I speak to you of plain things whichyou know far better than I. I am quite eager to see the newdrawings at Fabiola, and I am much excited about those atCologne ; but the gods alone know when I shall see them. On Wednesday I go to Rome, where I hope to see Rico ; «V. :Ls^,t^mi ^ ^^i*jv^ J V ■«? -^
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l^liiVV^ .^-f.^ viV, o^ £\>, CA* D*ORO, VENICE. WATER COLOUR. 1856 STEINLE AND ITALY AGAIN 285 if only I could take you with me, dear master ! Meanwhile Ibeg you to remember me most kindly to Madame Steinle, andyourself believe in the love of your grateful pupil, Fred Leighton. p,S.—My stay in Rome will (alas !) only be very short, forI am unexpectedly obliged to go soon to London, confoundit !—instead of a month, ten days ! Povero me ! Florence, .11//; October 1856.Dearest Mammy,—I wonder whether you are coming toFlorence, and, if so, how long you are going to stay. I supposeyou will go to the Hotel du Nord as in old times—^I go thereinvariably, and write now from my own particular room. Iwrote to you last from Venice, where I spent ten days in avery satisfactory manner between work and fldticrie of an artisticdescription—indeed 1 fldned this time with more advantage thanhitherto, for I went more closely than I had yet done into thearchitecture of Venice, studying the d