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Title: Sketches of great painters for young people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dallin, Colonna Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Painters
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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all others. But Offero soonsaw that the king was filled with fear at the name ofSatan ; so lie sought out Satan that he might serve him.One day, however, he saw Satan tremble at the sign ofthe cross. Then he determined to find Christ andserve him. He asked the advice of a hermit, who toldhim that he might serve his Master by carrying peopleover a certain stream which was very dangerous tocross. Offero built himself a hut beside the stream,and taking a palm tree for a staff, he carried travelersacross day after day. At length one stormy night, he heard a childs voicesaying, Christopher, carry me over. He went out ofthe hut and saw a child on the shore. He then tookhis staff, and putting the little one on his shoulder,entered the stream. As the storm rose, the child grewheavier and heavier, until Offero nearly sank under hisburden. When they reached the shore, the giant foundthat he had carried the Christ Child himself, who said, Christopher, I accept thy service, and as a proof, plant
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St. Christopher.97 98 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. thy staff and it shall blossom and bear fruit. He didso, and the dry palm tree bore clusters of dates.Then the Child vanished, and the giant was no longercalled Offero, the bearer, but Christopher, the Christ-bearer. Titian painted a number of Madonnas, remarkable,like all his works, for the splendid color, the beautyof the forms, and the composition ; but they are notreligious pictures, judged by the standards of the reli-gious painters of Florence and Venice. Titian painteda Madonna one day and a Venus the next, in much thesame spirit. The Pesaro Madonna, at the Church ofthe Frari, is characteristically beautiful. Althoughthe Virgin is of an exquisite type, the interest in thepicture centers in the masterly portraits of the Pesarofamily, kneeling in the foreground. Among the noble,dignified men there is one lovely young face with asweet, appealing look that haunts one. While Titian was at Ferrara, he painted his cele-brated portraits

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