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Identifier: artofpittipalace1903addi (find matches)
Title: The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866-
Subjects: Palazzo Pitti Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of their faces, they four had theface of a man, and the face o^f a lion, on the rightside: and they four had the face of an ox on theleft side; they four also had the face of an eagle.. . . And when they w^ent, I heard the noise of theirwings, like the noise of great waters, as the voiceof the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noiseof an host; . . . and above the firmament thatwas over their heads was the likeness ... as theappearance of a man above upon it. And I sawas the colour of amber, as the appearance of fireround about within it, . . . and it had brightnessround about. ... As the appearance of the bowthat is in the cloud in the day Of rain, so wasthe appearance of the brightness round about.This was the apparance of the likeness of the gloryof the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon myface, and I heard a voice Of one that spake. No more inspiring subject could be suggestedto a painter, and Raphael has used it nobly. Theeagle, symbol of St. John, is first to bear the hon-
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VISION OF EZEKIELBy Raphael; in the Hall of Saturn Ube f)all ot Saturn 175 oured burden; below are the lion of St. Mark andthe ox of St. Luke, while the angel of St. Matthewadores the Presence. Two little angels supportHis outspread arms; in the amber clouds all aboutare indications of angelic life beautifully expressed.Amber light is nowhere more perfectly luminousthan on this little wooden panel only thirteen byeighteen inches. Ruskins words, Raphael canexpatiate within the circumference of a platter,*might be applied to this majestic atom. Some critics claim that the Almighty is too rem-iniscent of Jove; but any anthropomorphic idea ofGod leads to such treatment. Morelli detects GiulioRomanos work here, and considers it not Raphaelsexcept in design; with such a result, it matterslittle. It is worthy of Raphael in any case, and ap-pears in the main extraordinarily characteristic. The picture was executed for Count VincenzioErcolani of Bologna, about 15lo. The French car-ried it off,

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  • booksubject:Palazzo_Pitti
  • booksubject:Painting
  • bookpublisher:Boston___L_C__Page
  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
  • bookleafnumber:230
  • bookcollection:americana
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