Outlines of the History of Art, Volume 2Dodd, Mead, 1877 - Art |
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Page 156 - ... work of nature — a forest, a mass of rocks, or something similar ; for I never can realise the idea that it is the work of man. You strive to distinguish the ceiling as little as the canopy of heaven. You lose your way in St. Peter's; you take a walk in it, and ramble till you are quite tired. When Divine service is performed and chanted there, you are not aware of it, till you come quite close The angels in the Baptistery are monstrous giants; the doves, colossal birds of prey.
Page 111 - One artist in the seclusion of his cloister, remained true to the traditions and mode of expression of the middle ages, into which, nevertheless, the incomparable beauty and feeling of his nature breathed fresh life. Fra Giovanni Angelico, called da Fiesole from the place of his birth, occupies an entirely exceptional position. He is the late-blooming flower of an almost by-gone time amid the pulsations of a new life. Never, in the whole range of pictorial art, have the inspired fervor of Christian...
Page 355 - Magdalen? exhibit the same genre-like style of face, the same dewy, melting, tenderly languishing eyes, the same small nose, and the same over-delicate, smiling mouth as his Danae, his Leda, or his lo. He loves to portray the rapture of passionate devotion, but the expression is the same whether he paints heavenly or earthly love. Yet, though he knows how to paint most perfectly the transports of human passion, and to make soft and swelling limb?
Page 360 - But Joseph hastened away, that he might fetch her a midwife ; and when he saw an old Hebrew woman who was of Jerusalem, he said to her, Pray come hither, good woman, and go into that cave, and you will there see a woman just ready to bring forth.
Page 346 - ... as the Redeemer of the world. The saintly Pope Sixtus is reverently looking upward, the impressive dignity of his bearing in strong contrast with St. Barbara, who stands opposite him, with lovely demeanor, her graceful head bowed and her eyes downcast before this revelation of power and glory. The two enchanting...
Page 324 - Raphael \ve find all the individual traits of intellectual life incomparably equipoised; and the highest expression of this harmony is perfect beauty. But this beauty does not consist merely of sensuous loveliness or fascinating grace: it is thoroughly permeated by thought, and strongly characterized. Each beauteous form nobly and powerfully expresses one or another feeling of the soul, ranging from the tender to the sublime. . . . Raphael ranks as high in grand symbolic paintings as in bold historical...
Page 346 - A veil flows from her head : she seems to be lost in profound thought concerning the divine mystery, which she clasps with motherly devotion ; for a child is throned within her arms, whose lofty mission is foreshadowed in his childish features, while the depth and majesty of his eyes express his destiny as the Redeemer of the world. The saintly Pope Sixtus is reverently looking upward, the impressive dignity of his bearing in strong contrast with Ste.
Page 360 - It was after sunset, when the old woman and Joseph with her reached the cave, and they both went into it. 10 And behold, it was all filled with lights, greater than the light of lamps and candles, and greater than the light of the sun itself.
Page 323 - While in other men, even of the first rank, one gift or another predominates, — -whether it be the gift of strong characterization, or that of producing the highest expression of the sublime, — in Raphael we find all the individual...
Page 346 - Madonna,' belong to no especial epoch, to no particular religious creed. They exist for all time and for all mankind, because they present an immortal truth in a form that makes a universal appeal.