Memoires of the Early Italian Painters, and of the Progress of Painting in Italy: From Cimabue to Bassano |
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255. lappuse - The twofold action contained in this picture, to which shallow critics have taken exception, is explained historically and satisfactorily merely by the fact that the incident of the possessed boy occurred in the absence of Christ ; but it explains itself in a still higher sense, when we consider the deeper universal meaning of the picture. For this purpose it is not even necessary to consult the books of the New Testament for the explanation of the particular incidents : the lower portion represents...
22. lappuse - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
242. lappuse - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
240. lappuse - Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein...
236. lappuse - And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
217. lappuse - When RAPHAEL went, His heavenly face the mirror of his mind, His mind a temple for all lovely things To flock to and inhabit...
85. lappuse - In this chapel wrought One of the Few, Nature's interpreters ; The Few, whom Genius gives as lights to shine MASACCIO ; and he slumbers underneath.
20. lappuse - ... of feelings and faculties, and of human life in all its multifarious aspects. Giotto was the first painter who " held, as it were, the mirror up to Nature." Cirnabue's strongest claim to the gratitude of succeeding ages is that he bequeathed such a man to his native country and to the world. About the year 1289, when Cimabue was already old and at the height of his fame, as he was riding in the valley of Vespignano, about fourteen miles from Florence, his attention was attracted by a boy who...
256. lappuse - Angelo, and, with the modesty and candor which belonged to his character, was heard to thank Heaven that he had been born in the same age and enabled to profit by the grand creations of that sublime genius : but he was by no means inclined to yield any supremacy to Sebastian ; he knew his own strength too well. To decide the controversy, the Cardinal Giulio de...
196. lappuse - Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master: to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest of his perfections, would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man.