Early Italian art, from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. To accompany a collection of five hundred reproductions (Series B, the University prints)Bureau of University Travel, 1907 - Art |
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Page 138 - The justice of the praises bestowed on Lorenzo for this work may be inferred from the words of Michael Angelo Buonarotti, who, standing to look at these doors, and being asked what he thought of them, and whether they were beautiful, replied in these words: — "They are so beautiful, that they might fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise," a truly appropriate tribute, and offered by him who could well judge of the work.
Page 101 - Annunciation', where the Blessed Virgin is warm with welcome and gladness as she leans forward to receive the palm of martyrdom which Gabriel brings her with his message. At Assisi, in a fresco by Pietro, of such relief and such enamel as to seem contrived of ivory and gold rather than painted, the Madonna holds back heart-broken tears as she looks fixedly at her Child, who, Babe though He is, addresses her earnestly; but she remains unconsoled.
Page 451 - A Book of Fac-similes of Monumental Brasses on the Continent of Europe, •with brief Descriptive Notes.
Page 489 - The thoughts of men have widened With the process of the suns/' and are able to deduce lessons which are of the utmost importance, politically and socially.
Page 23 - Bayliss, Sir Wyke. Rex regum; a painter's study of the likeness of Christ from the time of the apostles to the present day.
Page 16 - Form — The Work of Art as Significant — The Work of Art as Beautiful. Part III. — The Arts of Form :— Architectural Beauty in Relation to Construction — The Conventions of Sculpture — Painting Old and New. YALE ART SCHOOL, NEW HAVEN, CONN. MESSRS. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Gentlemen .—As a text-book for the study of the " Fine Arts," there is nothing in the literature of the subject that answers the requirements as this little book. The originality of Professor Brown's work is apparent....
Page 93 - A'irtues and Sciences, coupled with portraits of eminent exemplars, in this order: — Civil Law and Justinian ; Church Law and Clement V.; Speculative Theology and Peter Lombard; Practical Theology and S. Boethius; Faitli and Dionysius the Areopagite; Hope and John of Damascus; Ch:irity and St.
Page 82 - Giotto frescoes in the two adjacent chapels immediately to the right of the altar, which illustrate scenes from the lives of St. John the Evangelist and St. John the Baptist (in the right-hand chapel) and scenes from the life of St. Francis (in the left-hand chapel). Time has not been kind to...
Page 343 - Its foreshortening is forgotten or misunderstood; but the majesty of these solemn faces, the grand rhythm of their movement, the sublime emotion which struggles for expression through face and form and attitude, — these inspire the earnest beholder with a solemn awe scarce felt in any other presence.
Page 24 - With Notes by Sydney Vacher. London 1883. 4. 20 S., 20 T. Extracted from the Transactions 1882/3 of the R. Institute etc. Nachtrag. Zu S. 30 f. Wie ich aus einer eben eingetroffenen freundlichen Zusendung von Herrn CD Cobham ersehe, erscheint Owl I noch immer und erhält von nun...