Identifier: greatpicturesassx00sing (find matches)
Title: Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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aughters whose beauty exposed them to dangers. On theother side, throng King David, apostles, martyrs, SaintPeter the Dominican with his wounded head, SaintLaurence holding his gridiron, Saint Stephen with a palmin his hand, and Saint George armed from head to foot;then, in the foreground of the picture, is the charming groupof saints of perfectly celestial grace : the kneeling Magdalenoffers her vase of perfumes; Saint Caecilia advances,crowned with roses; Saint Clara gleams through her veil,constellated with crosses and golden stars; Saint Catherineof Alexandria leans upon the wheel, the instrument of herexecution, as calmly and peacefully as if it were a spinning-wheel ; and Saint Agnes holds in her arms a little whiteiamb, the symbol of innocent purity. Fra Beato Angelico has given to these youthful saints acelestial and ideal beauty, whose type exists not upon thisearth: they are visible souls, rather than bodies, they arethoughts of human form enveloped in these chaste draperies
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The Coronation of the Virgin. rra Angelico. THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN 79 of white, rose, and blue, sown with stars and embroidered,clothed as might be the happy spirits who rejoice in theeternal light of Paradise. If there be paintings in Heaven,surely they must resemble those of Fra Angelico. Guide de VAmateur au Musee du Louvre (Paris, 1883). JUDITH (SANDRO BOTTICELLI)MAURICE HEWLETT IN the days when it was verging on a question whethera man could be at the same time a good Christian andan artist the chosen subjects of painting were significant ofthe approaching crisis — those glaring moral contrasts inhistory which, for want of a happier term, we call dramatic.Why this was so, whether Art took a hint from Politics, orhad withdrawn her more intimate manifestations to awaitlikelier times, is a question it were long to answer. Thesubjects, at any rate, were such as the Greeks, with theirsurer instincts and saving grace of sanity in matters of thiskind, either forbore to meddle wi

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