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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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coes.Raphael lias represented Ezekiels vision as describedin the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. And Ilooked, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north.. . . Also out of the midst thereof came the likenessof four living creatures. And this was their appear-ance ; they had the likeness of a man. And everyone had four faces, and every one had four wings. . . .As for the likeness of their faces, they four had theface of man, and the face of a lion on the right side;and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ;they four also had the face of an eagle. ... The Transfiguration of Raphael is one of his strongestcompositions. Only parts of the picture were paintedby him, but the design was his, and he made many care-ful drawings and studies preparatory to the final work.The upper part of the composition represents the trans-figuration of Christ on Mt. Tabor, in the presence ofPeter, James, and John, who see in a vision Moses andElias talking with Him. It represents the moment
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Haphael. The Sistikb Max>onna. 77 78 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. when from the clouds came these words, — This ismy beloved son, hear ye Him. In the lower part of the picture is presented a pain-ful experience that the apostles had just passed throughwhile waiting for their Master. A man with a lunaticson had brought his boy to them to be cured ; but theywere powerless to help him. They could only tell thesuffering father of their Master, who was on the moun-tain, and bid him wait to appeal to Christ. The figureof the Redeemer was painted by Raphael himself, andalso the graceful female figure in the foreground. Raphael worked with untiring energy and faithful-ness from year to year. Modest and temperate in hismanner of living, he was able to accomplish a vastamount in his short life. When he laid down his brush,his power was at its fullest, and there was still thepromise of greater development. While at work upon the Transfiguration, Raphael wenthurriedly to the Vatican one day t

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