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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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come again,Until the day-star rise, oracular: 143 Florence. So in the night, God sent thee to unbarThe doors of day and bring the glorious reignOf thy dear Son, O mother without stain,Thou star-crowned Queen of Heaven, thou Morning Star.0 Mary Mother, help my halting faith:The night is round me and I cannot see;The stars are hidden by the worlds dead breath;Be thou my Star, and let me follow theeThrough this dim valley of the shadow of death,Into the sunlight of Gods majesty. —Ralph Adams Cram. Angelico died in Rome and is buried in theChurch of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva.This is his epitaph, translated: Let me not be praised that I was anotherApelles, But that I gave all to the children of Christ. Some works are for the Earth, others forHeaven— The flower of Etrurias cities bore me, Gio-vanni. FRA ANGELICO. Art is true art when art to God is true,And only then; to copy Natures workWithout the chains that run the whole world throughGives us the eye without the lights that lurk 144
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Madonna of the Star Angelico Fra Lippo Lippi. In its clear depths; no soul, no truth is there.Oh, praise your Rubens and his fleshy brush!Oh, love your Titian and his carnal air!Give me the trilling of a pure-toned thrush,And take your crimson parrots. Artist-saint!0 Fra Angelico, your brush was dyedIn hues of opal, not in vulgar paint;You showed to us pure joys for which you sighed,Your heart was in your work, you never feigned;You left us here the Paradise you gained! —Maurice Francis Egan. Quite different from Angelicos spiritual con-ceptions are the pictures of his contemporary,Fra Filippo Lippi—or Lippo Lippi, for short—who painted his religious subjects in a humanatmosphere, not idealizing them. Well mighthis Superior in the convent of the Carmine say: Faces, arms, legs and bodies like the truth As much as pea and pea—its a devils game— Your business is not to catch men with show, With homage to the perishable clay, But lift them over, ignore it all, Make them forget t

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