The Italian Schools of Painting: Based on the Handbook of Kugler, 第 1 卷

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J. Murray, 1902

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第 110 頁 - Lower down is the earth, where men are rising from the graves; armed angels direct them to the right and left. Here is seen Solomon, who whilst he rises seems doubtful to which side he should turn ; here a hypocritical monk, whom an angel draws back by the hair from the host of the blessed ; and a youth in secular costume, whom another angel leads away from the condemned to the opposite groups. The blessed and the condemned rise in thick crowds above each other on both sides...
第 107 頁 - Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
第 20 頁 - Two palm-trees, sparkling with gold, above one of which appears the emblem of eternity — the phoenix — with a star-shaped nimbus, close the composition on each side. Further below, indicated by water-plants, sparkling also with gold, is the river Jordan. The figure of Christ may be regarded as one of the most marvellous specimens of the art of the middle ages. Countenance, attitude, and drapery combine to give him an expression of quiet majesty, whiph, for many centuries after, is not found again...
第 xxx 頁 - Virgin. || 1. The Prophecy of Simeon (Luke ii. 35). 2. The Flight into Egypt. 3. Christ, while disputing with the Doctors in the Temple, missed by his Mother. 4. Christ Betrayed. 5. The Crucifixion (the Virgin and St. John only present). 6. The Deposition from the Cross. 7. The Ascension...
第 110 頁 - One queenly lady alone, deeply moved, rests her head on her hand, her graceful countenance full of sorrow. On the mountain heights are several hermits, who, in contrast to the followers of the joys of the world> have attained, in a life of contemplation and abstinence, the highest term of human existence.
第 86 頁 - ... has a large representation of the Last Judgment. Here, as in the allegorical pieces, Giotto appears as a great innovator, a number of situations suggested by the Scriptures being here either expressed for the first time, or seen in a totally new form. He enriches the well-known subjects with numerous subordinate figures, thus making the picture more truthful or more intelligible. In that scene, for instance, where an angel is appearing to Joachim in a dream, he has introduced two shepherds on...
第 22 頁 - Unfortunately, the decorations of the principal tribune, and those of the quadrangular arched space before it, are all that have been preserved. They refer in subject to the foundation and consecration of the church, with the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Gold grounds and blue grounds alternate here, the former being confined to the apsis and to two of the four divisions of the arched space. In the semi-dome of the apsis appears a still very youthful Christ, seated upon the globe of the world ;...
第 16 頁 - ... of such excellence, is decidedly not ascribable to any inability of drawing on the part of the artist, but to the desire of giving the spectator as much as possible of the holy countenances. In default of a definite type for the Apostles — the first traces of which can at most be discerned in the figure of St.
第 98 頁 - It is impossible tx> overestimate the influence of Giotto's genius. He opened a fountain of nature to the gifted generations who succeeded him in Italy which permeated through the length and breadth of the land, spreading beauty and fertility in its course.
第 110 頁 - ... reptiles. They fight with each other ; on the right, the angels ascend to heaven with those they have saved ; while the demons drag their prey to a fiery mountain, visible on the left, and hurl the souls down into the flames. Next to these corpses is a crowd of beggars and cripples, who with outstretched arms call upon Death to end their sorrows; but she heeds not their prayer, and has already hastened away.

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