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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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the Virgin. As is too common with him, the quaintness ofhis conception, and his independence of convention makes his representation interesting atthe expense of its dignity. Christ sits at a high desk on a platform under a canopy, andlectures his audience with an energy that has plunged them all into confusion. They gatherinto groups to conjure up arguments of defence against the unlooked-for invader, they sliutup their books with bangs of despair; lean their heads on their hands; shake warning lingers,or gaze up at the ceiling as if hoping against hope for help from heaven. One very oldPharisee, still trusting in his books, has toddled out after a convincing volume, which he bringsback, supporting his steps with a crutch. Opposite, entering by the porch, ^^•e see Mary and I go ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. Joseph; Mary with her hands folded in prayer; Joseph, hat in hand, in his usual attitudeof hiimility. Diirers design is a type of the disorder that was brought into the domain of
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. FROM THE PICTURE BY HEINRICH HOFMANN. religious teaching by means of art, when every artist thought himself at liberty to translatethe subject according to his own taste. Perhaps the most extraordinary perversion of the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 191 poetic interest of the story is, however, found in the representation by Menzel alluded to inour notice of that artist, where the whole force of his undoubted talent has been broughtto bear in putting the Jews in a hateful light. Jesus himself is hardly spared, since he appearsas a youth of preternatural sharpness, who sees ^vith intellectual gusto the confusion of hisadversaries. It is worth remarking in passing, that this vein of malice, so foreign to modernideas of the character of Jesus, is conspicuous in the so-called apocryphal books that describehis infancy. One of these, bearing on our subject, relates that in school, the teacher, instruct-ing the boy in the alphabet, asked him to say Aleph. He said it, and

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