Excerpt from Storied Italy June,1914 T has happened to me to take over a friend's house during her absence, and among the strange prop erties that a twentieth-century woman of art has gathered round her there is one which has given me my moorings at last! I have made friends with a picture. Perhaps made friends is a rather presumptuous term for my feelings towards it, for these are tinged with awe, amounting at times to fear. The picture is hung high on a soft grey-blue wall just Opposite my writing table. From a ...
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Excerpt from Storied Italy June,1914 T has happened to me to take over a friend's house during her absence, and among the strange prop erties that a twentieth-century woman of art has gathered round her there is one which has given me my moorings at last! I have made friends with a picture. Perhaps made friends is a rather presumptuous term for my feelings towards it, for these are tinged with awe, amounting at times to fear. The picture is hung high on a soft grey-blue wall just Opposite my writing table. From a background Of unbroken black a face shows in profile, a young, pale face, as strong as it is delicate. Not a lock of hair strays from the black folds wound closely round it. The deep blue eyes look straight before them, and from the impenetrable draperies rises a slender white hand, beckoning imperiously. There is menace in the face, menace in the gesture, but menace benignant, as Of a warning spirit calling a mortal from the brink of deadly danger. The deep Old gold of the frame bears a name and a date - those of a great Umbrian master, but he never painted this beautiful alarming phantom who calls me 4: I 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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