Paintings of the Louvre, Italian and SpanishDoubleday, Page, 1905 - 303 pages |
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adoration Angelico angels Annibale Carracci artist attitude attributed background beautiful blue body Botticelli Braun Calvary Caravaggio Catherine Caze Gallery characteristics charm Christ Cimabue Clement & Cie colouring composition Correggio dark elements expression eyes face Ferrara figures Filippo Lippi Florence foreground Fra Angelico Fra Filippo Lippi Francis garments Gentile Bellini gentle Ghirlandajo Giorgione Giotto Giovanni Giovanni Bellini graceful Guido Reni hair hand Hautecœur head Holy Family imitator influence John the Baptist knees landscape light Lionardo Long Gallery Lorenzo Lorenzo di Credi Louvre Luini manner Mantegna Mary Magdalene Masaccio master Michael Angelo Murillo mystic natural Oggiono painted painter Palma Vecchio Perugino Phot picture called Piero Portrait pupil Raphael realism represented Ribera saint Salle VI Salle VII Salon Carré Saviour scene Sebastian shadows shows side Siena Signorelli sixteenth century Spanish stands Tintoretto tints Titian tones treatment Vasari Velasquez Venetian Venice Veronese Verrocchio Virgin and Child woman
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Page 103 - Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek Goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
Page 103 - All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the reverie of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.54 She is older than the rocks among which she sits...
Page 265 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 102 - Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions.
Page 104 - She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments and...
Page 96 - France in 1516, and here he remained up to the time of his death which took place in the Chateau Cloux at Amboise in the year 1519.
Page 4 - Cimabue believed that, in painting, he was master of the field, but, to-day. Giotto has the acclamation of the public and Cimabue's fame is overshadowed
Page 23 - The Entrance of Pope Martin V into the Castle of St. Angelo
Page 250 - Altamira (No. 1737) is clearly the astute prelate who is better skilled in the things of this world than in those of the next.