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Identifier: sketchesofgreatp00dall (find matches)
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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swork in the Sistine Chapel in 1512. Although on the Sistine ceiling there are over threehundred figures, varying in size from the little boyangels that support the cornices to the colossal proph-ets and sibyls that would be eighteen feet high if stand-ing, there is the most perfect harmony and unity in thevast composition. These heroic figures are hardlyequaled in the world of art for majesty and grandeur.Among them all none is more sublime than that ofAdam lying on a rugged mountain side, awaiting thetouch of the Creator to send the lifeblood thrillingthrough his veins, awakening him to life and light.The Creator in the same fresco is conceived with equalpoetic power; and it seems as though the artists im-agination had scaled the very heights of heaven, so glo-rious and so godlike is this representation of the Sourceof all being. In the spaces between the pointed arches, on theright of the altar, are the Libyan, Cumean, and Del-phic sibyls ; between them are the prophets, Daniel and
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Michelany, 58 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. Isaiah. On the left are Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Joel,with the Persian and Erythrean sibyls between them.Over the altar end is Jonah, and at the opposite end isZacharias, who is not deep in meditation like Joel, nortransported with hope like Ezekiel and Isaiah, butwholly absorbed in reading the prophecies of the Mes-siah. The figure of Jeremiah is the noblest and mostimposing in the long line of prophets. He sits wrappedin profound thought, and seems to bear witness to allthe intense longing and rapturous expectation of theHebrew race. The overwhelming majesty of the colos-sal prophets is relieved by the figure of the lovelyDelphic sibyl, who looks forth as though from sometroubled dream, and that of the Libyan sibyl with herglorious head and beautiful drapery. But the old andhaggard forms of the Cumean and Persian sibyls are asterrible as the prophets. In the family groups below, the lofty strain becomesmore tender ; and a lighter chord still i

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  • booksubject:Painters
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