insisting always that he israther a demigod than a mortal, a demigod who is never atpeace, who has despised small things, and is at home only in themidst of a vast battle of light and darkness in which Heaven,earth, and his own soul are continually involved. He hasnever understood how to be at… … ACADEMY 165 and expressed by means of beauty or character. It is onlyTintoretto who sacrifices everything for energy, and, as it were,by flashes of light and darkness would reveal to us man as akind of force, tragic and restless and unhappy upon thedistracted earth. Yet he painted the beautiful and…
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