Handbook of the Paintings, Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of ArtJ.F. Eby & Company, Printers, 1895 - 42 pages |
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ANDREA SACCHI angel arms artist background beautiful Benjamin West blue mantle Bologna School Born C. J. Knight Canvas Carracci cathedral century cherubs child Christ church collection of C. J. collection of Major coloring Corbett-Winder collection cross Death Described in Smith's Detroit Museum Dutch School England Evangeline excelled famous female figures Flemish School Florence Florentine School foreground Formerly frescoes gallery GIOVANNI GIOVANNI BELLINI gold Goyen holds the Infant Holy Infant Jesus Infant Savior interiors Italian painters J. E. Scripps JACOB RUYSDAEL kneeling landscape later latter is nude lection left hand lily lower right Lucretia Madonna Major Corbett Murillo Museum of Art nymph old masters painted Palace Paris Salon portrait Presented by J. E. Purchased Rembrandt REMBRANDT PEALE right hand robe Rome Rubens Ruysdael saint seated seen Signed in lower SIMON DE VLIEGER sits Smith's Catalogue sold tion Titian trees tures Venetian School Venice W. H. Aspinwall Winder Wood
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Page 42 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 42 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 42 - Village, -and mountain, and woodlands; and, walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes ; and as slowly he lifted his eyelids, Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside. Vainly he strove to whisper her name, for the accents unuttered Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken.
Page 42 - and died away into silence. Then he beheld, in a dream, once more the home of his childhood ; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them, Tillage, and mountain, and woodlands ; and, walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes ; and as slowly he lifted his eyelids, Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside.
Page 32 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 42 - That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows. On the pallet before her was stretched the form of an old man. Long, and thin, and...
Page 21 - ... very common among works of art of the thirteenth and fourteenth century, in glass, miniatures, and sculpture. They are usually extended in their cave side by side. Their names are inscribed above their heads, and they have the martyr's palm. June 27. Sibyls, The, were prophetesses, who foretold the coming of Christ to the Gentiles as the prophets did to the Jews.
Page 42 - So are wont to be changed the faces of those who are dying. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over.
Page 15 - ... consecrated pigs, which were allowed to feed at the public charge, and which it was a profanation to steal or kill : hence the proverb about the fatness of a
Page 28 - In 1615 the teaching of a contrary doctrine was prohibited by papal bull. About the same time Pacheco, a Spanish inquisitor and inspector of sacred pictures, laid down rules to be followed in pictorial representations of the dogma. The Virgin was to be portrayed in the bloom of youth, with all the beauty painting can express, her hands to be folded on her bosom or joined in prayer. She was to be surrounded by a flood of light with the moon under her feet; her robe to be of spotless white, the mantle,...