Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Art

Author : Mrs. Jameson
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ISBN 13 : 9781330797235
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Monastic Orders written by Mrs. Jameson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Legends of the Monastic Orders: As Represented in the Fine Arts Forming In presenting to the public this Second Series of Sacred and Legendary Art. I can but refer to the Preface and general Introduction prefixed to the First Series for an explanation of the purpose of the work as a whole, and the motives from which it was first undertaken. I spoke of it there as, at best, only an attempt to do what has not hitherto been done, - to interpret, as far as I could in a limited space, and with very imperfect knowledge, those works of Art which the churches and galleries of the Continent, and our own rich collections, have rendered familiar to us as objects of taste, while they have remained unappreciated as subjects of thought; - to show that, while we have been satisfied to regard sacred pictures merely as decorations, valued more fur the names appended to them than for their own sakes, we have not sufficiently considered them - as books, as poems, - as having a vitality of their own for good and for evil, and that thus we have shut out a vast source of delight and improvement, which lay in the way of many, even the most uninstructed in the technicalities of Art. 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.