Jean Richter

Date of Birth:

07-Jun-1847

Nationality:

Andorra

Profession:

Art Historian

German art historian, collector and salesman. The son of a Lutheran clergyman, he first studied theology in Leipzig but when he left Italy in 1869 he became interested in the ancient Christian scholars, in that field he was determined to continue. His early works were in the origin of Byzantine art history and paintings of Ravenna. In 1876 he met Giovanni Morelli, and became his student. Their long correspondence became an important source in the early history of exoisseurship. Richter published Leonardo's short history in 1880, then became a series of articles in the Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst and eventually his edition of the Literary Works of Leonardo (1883), a work that established his reputation as an expert. This was the first scholarly translation of Leonardo's writings, illustrated, moreover, by a selection of authentic drawings at a time when Leonardo's books were often depicted on the works of his students ....

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QUOTES BY Jean Richter

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

"Paradise is always where love dwells."

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards."

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."

"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

"Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart"

"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's na"

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."