This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...embodiment of a large philosophic conception: it is met with throughout the Middle Ages, and this picture serves to prove its survival, as a source of pictorial inspiration, deep into the Italian Renaissance, a period too often branded as purely pagan. This composition therefore is one of the last links in a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...embodiment of a large philosophic conception: it is met with throughout the Middle Ages, and this picture serves to prove its survival, as a source of pictorial inspiration, deep into the Italian Renaissance, a period too often branded as purely pagan. This composition therefore is one of the last links in a chain of typological representations of which the evolution may be traced for upwards of twelve hundred years. The modern art-critic, being generally ignorant of the origins both of Christianity, and of classic Christian art, too often interprets such pictures as this unworthily; he sometimes looks on the Virgin and Child as centres of a bourgeois family-group, when they should be regarded as symbols of the Incarnation, conceived as the inauguration of a new phase in the evolution of man. The colours used here (orange, orange-red, and lemon), the rich red-brown hair, and warm flesh tints, are characteristic of the School of Verona. No.f. t GIOLFINO. The date of the birth and death of Nicolo GioUino are unknown; those of his working life may be gathered from the dates on his pictures, which range from 1486 to 1518. Liberale was his master, and Paolo Farinato one of his pupils. S. George between two Bishops In the centre of the composition is S. George, a blonde knightly youth, with yellow hair, yellow tunic with full sleeves, and orange-red hose; a palm is in his right hand, and a long orange-coloured sword in his left. To the left is S. Zeno, in white alb, and pluviale of a sunny rose-colour, figured with gold and black; a gold-embroidered white mitre on his head; a yellow book in his gloved right hand; and a crosier with gold finale in his left. To the right is an ecclesiastic in white alb, and pale rose-coloured pluviale, embroidered...
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