House Beautiful Vol 12 Classic Reprint

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333871178
Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book The House Beautiful, Vol. 11 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The House Beautiful, Vol. 11 Throughout the Italian Renaissance and the revivals of art in Europe, the whole artistic guild paid its tribute to the Madonna, and the world will never see repeated the enthusiasm with which their conceptions were received and the adoration in which they were held. The appreciation extended through all ranks of society: from the peasant who, in his ignorance, thought that the pictures he worshiped were of miraculous origin, to the nobles and popes who, fired by the discoveries of buried remains of antique sculpture, and filled with enthusiasm for the beauty these revealed, felt the most intense interest in their own masters, and valued fine works of art as priceless treasures. Hough both faith and a love of art have grown faint since the time when the Florentines made a public procession to escort an altar-piece to its destination, yet the pictures the world loves best are still of the Mother and Child. For one person who recalls the vast projects to which Leonardo da Vinci's versatile brain gave birth, there are thousands who have admired The Madonna of the Rocks, and the fame of Raphael's Holy Families is greater than that of his peerless achievement in mural painting. Hat a number of Madonnas are designed at the present day is due largely to the ideas that obtain in France, where classical and Bible incidents are consid ered of equal importance for pictorial representation. In the art schools subjects for compositions are taken from one or the other with a truly impartial judgment, and the students carry this training into after life. A fine example of this French point of view is seen ln The Flight into Egypt, by Luc Oliver Merson, which is well known in this country owing to numerous reproductions. But the mass of the religious pictures that are seen in the salons year after year are uninteresting and painfully insincere, often showing only the desire to attract attention by some novel idea, some queer sensational motive. NE outcome of the growth of the plein air school, and the study of peasant life, has been to portray the Madonna in humble gardens and interiors; again, all symbolism is omitted, the family tie alone is emphasized. Certain of these paint ings of maternity, both of the class from which Mary came and in higher ranks where the bond is quite as strong, are very charming in their distinctive way. But whether the subject gains a certain glory from religious belief, or is the type of the purest and most lovely of human relations, it must be regarded as an im mortal one, which appeals to the heart, the imagination, and the intellect, ever finding an echo in humanity's deepest feelings, and ever ready for new reproduc tion by poet or artist. T is the beauty of the human tie that Mr. Brush realizes to a remarkable degree. His own wife in her intercourse with her children has been his inspi ration. Each group has a supremely natural action which the artist might have observed and noted just as it appeared. While the lines of composition are exqui. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.