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Title: Florence in poetry, history and art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
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Publisher: Chicago, Mayer and Miller Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, methinks, the painters hand hath soughtMeanings to plant of more than common thought—A look, as if that calm, yet clouded eyeHad glimpses of futurity;And mid the glories of each final doom,Foresaw, not less, the sorrows first to come. —John Kenyon. Albertinellis Visitation is described by Mrs.Jameson: The first is the simple majestic compositionof Albertinelli. (Florence Gal.) The two women, standing alone under a richlysculptured arch, and relieved against the brightazure sky, embrace each other. There are noaccessories. Mary is attired in dark blue drap-ery, and Elizabeth wears an ample robe of asaffron or other amber color. The mingled grandeur, power and grace, anddepth of expression in these two figures, arequite extraordinary; they look like what theyare, and worthy to be the mothers of the great-est of kings and greatest of prophets. Albertinelli has here emulated his friend Bar-tolommeo—his friend, whom he so loved, thatwhen, after the horrible execution of Savona- 228
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The Artist of tije Monk. rola, Bartolommeo, broken-hearted, threw him-self into the convent of St. Mark, Albertinellibecame almost distracted and desperate. Hewould certainly, says Vasari, have gone into thesame convent, but for the hatred he bore themonks, of whom he was always saying the mostinjurious things. Through some hidden influence of intensesympathy, Albertinelli, though in point of char-acter the very antipodes of his friend, oftenpainted so like him, that his pictures—and thisnoble picture more particularly—might be mis-taken for the work of the frate. THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGINMARY. And Blessed Mary rose and went her wayTo Judah, mid whose verdant hills there layThe home of Zaccharias, there to greetWith revrent salutation, and repeatTo Saint Elizabeth her secret strange andsweet. Her simple salutation scarce was spoke,When from the aged womans lips there brokeA burst of blessing: Can it surely beThe mother of my Lord should come to me ?The very babe beneath

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