Fra AngelicoG. Bell and Sons, 1902 - 185 Seiten |
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Seite 141 - Non mihi sit laudi, quod eram velut alter Apelles, Sed quod lucra tuis omnia, Christe, dabam: Altera nam terris opera extant, altera coelo.
Seite 1 - He laboured assiduously at painting, but he never cared to work at any but sacred subjects. Rich indeed he might have been, yet for riches he took no thought. He was wont to say that true riches consist in being contented with little. He might have borne rule over many, but he did not choose to do so, believing that he who obeys has fewer cares, and is less likely to go astray. It was in his power, too, to have held high place, both within his order and without it ; but he cared nothing for such...
Seite 151 - Donatello, who were destined to fashion the most perfect art- works of the Quattrocento. By all these, as we shall see, Fra Angelico was influenced." (Langton Douglas, FRA ANGELICO, London, 1902, pp. 17-18.) " Living in that wonderful age of the early Renaissance, he was one of its most characteristic products.
Seite viii - Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano.
Seite 2 - Maignan in his power, too, to have held high place, both within his order and without it ; but he cared nothing for such honors, affirming that he sought no other dignity than the avoidance of hell and the attainment of paradise. And, in truth, what dignity can compare with that which not only religious but all men ought to strive after, namely, that which is to be found in God alone and in a virtuous order of life. . . . " Fra Angelico was of a most humane and temperate disposition, and living in...
Seite 104 - Krishna, in which occur, with more or fewer points of similarity, the pastoral scenes of the nativity, the adoration of the shepherds and the magi, the flight into Egypt, the massacre of the Innocents...
Seite 46 - Dance they in a ring in heaven, All the Blessed in that garden, Where the love divine abideth, Which is all aglow with love. " In that ring dance all the Blessed, In that ring dance all the angels. Go they all before the Bridegroom, Dancing all of them for love.
Seite 10 - It is shared by persons holding the most diverse opinions. On the one side are those who inwardly despise "this mild, meek, angelic monk, who," as they say, " bolted his monastery doors, and sprinkled holy water in the face of the antique.
Seite 18 - Gaddi ; secondly, the schools of the miniaturists, and chief amongst these the school of the Camaldolese convent of, Sta. Maria degli Angeli ; and, thirdly, the group of young sculptors, Jacopo della Quercia and Ghiberti, Brunelleschi and Donatello, who were destined to- fashion the most perfect art-works of the Quattrocento. By all these, as we shall see, Fra Angelico was influenced.
Seite 150 - This tendency, therefore, would not of itself disqualify Fra Angélico from taking rank amongst the great leaders of the Florentine Renaissance. But in reality he is very little guilty of any such failing. The artist and the saint in him worked in such perfect harmony that we are rarely conscious of any effort on the part of the latter to dominate the former. And it is in this fact that one of the greatest secrets of his success lies. He painted the kind of subjects that he liked best to paint.