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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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rougha pious consideration, the price of the fee, that thevice of covetousness or avarice may not steal in.Blessings on the pure soul of Theophilus! Donot these old pictures in Florence take on a newmeaning after reading his exhortations? WithBrowning: How shall we prologuize, how shall we perorate,Utter fit things upon art and history ?Feel truth at blood-heat and falsehood at zero-rate,Make of the want of the age no mystery! * With a tolerance, then, bred, as is all tolerance;of understanding, let us examine this picture ofFra Angelicos. Unfortunately, it is not a very creditable specimenof his best work, and it is a good deal restored. Itis framed as a triptych. In the centre sits the Vir-gin with the Child standing on her knee, giving ablessing. The decorative quality of the halos andaccessories are charming. The persistence of mis-sal-painting on a large scale is the chief impressionreceived. A blue mantle over a pink robe, as pre-scribed, clothes the Virgin. The Child is also in
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09 3(U (U P4 r1 J u c< o Ube Stansa ot lPrometbeu5 251 rose colour. In her right hand Mary holds a box,probably of some perfume or unguent. This isthe extent of the central composition, — not orig-inal ; the delicate work in the background shouldbe noticed. On the left is St. John the Baptist hold-ing a cross, with his fur robe draped by a longmantle. In the same panel stands St. Dominic, thefounder of Fra Angelicos order, holding a lily anda book. Above these two figures is an exquisitelittle Annunciation angel in a quatrefoil ornament!On the right of the triptych are St. Peter Martyrand St. Thomas, who holds an open book showingGothic lettering. These are both in the Dominicanhabit. Above them, in a little quatrefoil, a smallfigure of the Virgin balances the angel on the otherside. Over the gilded framework of the tabernacletwo small scenes may be observed; Dominicanspreaching and exhorting with some spirit, paintedwith more independence, since these scenes were notincluded in

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  • bookyear:1903
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Addison__Julia_de_Wolf_Gibbs__1866_
  • booksubject:Palazzo_Pitti
  • booksubject:Painting
  • bookpublisher:Boston___L_C__Page
  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
  • bookleafnumber:322
  • bookcollection:americana
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