ANECDOTES
OF
PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS.
EXTRACT FROM TEXT TO PLATE LIII OF THE AMERICAN
EDITION OF BOYDELL'S ILLUSTRATIONS
OF SHAKSPEARE.
It is deemed appropriate to devote this page to
the infelicities which often fall to the lot of men of
genius, in hopes to strike a sympathetic chord;
since to them the world owes all that is beautiful as
well as useful in art. It is well known that men of
fine imaginations and delicate taste, are generally
distinguished for acute sensibilities, and for being
deficient in more practical qualities; they are frequently
eccentric, and illy adapted to contend with
the coldness and indifference of the world, much
less its sarcasm and enmity. The history of Art is
full of melancholy examples.
When Torregiano, the cotemporary of Michael Angelo, had finished his exquisite group of the Madonna and Child for the Duke d'Arcos, with the as-
