. Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers. y and a perfection init of an incommunicable kind. The central figure, , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced herimage in the painters mind; her deep, dark, eloquent eyeslifted up; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead— she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance, asit were, calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture,and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant lightof life. She is listening to the music of heaven, and, as Iimagine, has just ceased to sing, for the four figures thatsurround her
. Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers. y and a perfection init of an incommunicable kind. The central figure, , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced herimage in the painters mind; her deep, dark, eloquent eyeslifted up; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead— she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance, asit were, calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture,and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant lightof life. She is listening to the music of heaven, and, as Iimagine, has just ceased to sing, for the four figures thatsurround her evidently point, by their attitudes, towardsher; particularly St. John, who, with a tender yet impas-sioned gesture, bends his countenance towards her, languidwith the depth of his emotion. At her feet lie various in-struments of music, broken and unstrung. Of the colour-ing I do not speak ; it eclipses nature, yet has all her truthand softness. Letters from Italy. The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,edited by Harry Buxton Forman (London, 1880).. St. Cecilia. Raphael. THE LAST SUPPER {LEONARDO DA VINCI) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE W X TE will now turn to The Last Supper, which was\ \ painted on the wall of the refectory of St. Mariadelle Gratie in Milan. The place where this picture is painted must first be con-sidered : for here the knowledge of this artist is anything more appropriate, or noble, be devised fora refectory than a parting meal which the whole worldwill reverence for ever ? Several years ago when travelling we beheld this dining-room still undestroyed. Opposite the entrance on thenarrow end on the floor of the hall stands the priors tablewith a table for the monks on either side, all three raiseda step above the ground, and now when the visitor turnsaround he sees painted on the wall, above the not veryhigh doors, a fourth table, at which are seated Christ andHis disciples, as if they also belonged to this company. Itmust have been an impre
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