Identifier: madonnainart1897hurl (find matches)
Title: The Madonna in art
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Onthe steps sit two choristers playing theviolin and mandolin. Palmas great altar-piece, at Vicenza,is another splendid enthroned Madonna.Attended by St. George and St. Lucy, 50 THE MADONNA IN ART. and entertained by a musical angel seatedat her feet, the Virgin supports her beau-tiful boy, as he gives his blessing. Bellinis enthroned Madonnas areknown throughout the world. Thepicture by which he established hisfame was one of this class, originallypainted for a chapel in San Giobbe, butnow hanging in the Venice Academy.Ruskin has pronounced it one of thegreatest pictures ever painted in Chris-tendom in her central art power. It isa large composition, with three saintsat each side, and three choristers below. The Frari Madonna is in a simplervein, and consists of three compartments,the central one containing the Virginsthrone. The angioletti, on the steps, areprobably the most popular of their charm-ing class in Venice. The San Zaccaria Madonna waspainted when Bellini was over eighty
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Giovanni Bellini. — Madonna of San Zaccaria. (Detail.) THE MADONNA ENTHRONED. 53 years old, and has certain technical qual-ities surpassing any the artist had pre-viously attained. The depth of lightand shade is particularly remarkable; thecolors rich and harmonious. The at-tendant saints are St. Lucy on the right,a pretty blonde girl, with St. Jerome be-yond her, absorbed in his Bible; oppo-site, stand St. Catherine, pensively lookingdown, and St. Peter, in profound medita-tion. The entire picture, both in con-ception and execution, may be considereda representative example of the times. Following the Bellini school, and form-ing, as it were, a connecting link betweenthe earlier and the later art, was Giorgione.Less than a score of existing works givewitness to the rare spirit of this master,who was spared to earth only thirty-fouryears. These are of a quality to placehim among the immortals. The en-throned Madonna is the subject of two, 54 THE MADONNA IN ART. one in the Madrid Gal

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