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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II THE VISITATION The group of related pictures with which we dealt in the first chapter of this series, representing the Sposalizio, or Marriage of the Virgin, belongs to the legendary cycle of the Life of Mary, and of her devout parents, St. Joachim and St. Anna. It is but one out of a numerous family, based on the uncanonical Protevangelion and the apocryphal gospel of the Birth of Mary. The whole of this cycle has suggested subjects for representation in art, almost as fixed and constant in their elements as the one which I have already selected for illustration. The chief moments in the series thus characterised are these: Joachim's offering rejected by the High Priest; Joachim retires to the sheepfold; Joachim's sacrifice; the meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate (a particularly well-known specimen of which may be seen in the little fresco attributed by Ruskin to Giotto, but more probably by a follower of his school, in a lunette of the cloisters of the Spanish chapel at Florence); the Birth of the Virgin (a very frequent theme, one of the most familiar examples of which is Ghirlandajo's masterpiece in Santa Maria Novella); the Presentationof the Virgin in the Temple; the four stages in the episode of the miracle of the rods; and the Marriage of the Virgin. All these incidents are represented by Giotto on the walls of the Madonna dell' Arena at Padua?a little church which forms a perfect museum of Giottesque art, absolutely indispensable to the student of evolution in Italian painting. I would say to those who visit Italy for the sake of serious study of her art in its developmental aspect, Whatever else you see or omit, do not fail to see the Giottos at Padua. The subject which we have here to deal with, on the other hand, is taken direct from the actu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217831963 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217831966 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 138 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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