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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: read this piece of history, or epic poetry, with honourable care, that there is somewhat more to be thought of and pictured in Judith, than painters have mostly found it in them to show you; that she is not merely the Jewish Delilah to the Assyrian Samson; but the mightiest, purest, brightest type of high passion in severe womanhood offered to our human memory. Sandro's picture is but slight; but it is true to her, and the only one I know that is; and after writing out these yerses, you will see why he gives her that swift, peaceful motion, while you read in her face, only sweet solemnity of dreaming thought. My people delivered, and by my hand; and God has been gracious to His handmaid The triumph of Miriam over a fallen host, the fire of exulting mortal life in an immortal hour, the purity and severity of a guardian angel?all are here; and as her servant follows, carrying indeed the head, but invisible?(a mere thing to be carried? no mre to be so much as thought of)?she looks only at her mistress, with intense, servile, watchful love. Faithful, not in these days of fear only, but hitherto in all her life, and afterwards forever. After you have seen it enough, look also for a little while at Angelico's Marriage and Death of the Virgin, in the same room; you may afterwards associate the three pictures always together in your mind. And, looking at nothing else to-day in the TJflSzi, let us go back to Giotto's chapel. We must begin with this work on our left hand, the Death of Si. Francis; for it is the key to all the rest. Let us hear first what Mr. Crowe directs us to think of it . In the composition of this scene, Giotto produced a masterpiece, which served as a model but too often feebly imitated by his successors. Good arrangement, variety of character and e...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458870100 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458870103 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $23.09 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 130 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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