. Programme. y was beset for many years by devils. Sometimes Satantempted him in the form of a beautiful woman; at other timesgrotesque or horrid imps assailed him. And anon, to quote fromThe Golden Legend of J. de Voragine, who flourished in 1370 andwhose book published about 1470 was Englished by William Caxtonin 1483, they came in form of divers beasts wild and savage, of whomthat one howled, another siffled, and another cried, and anotherbrayed and assailed S. Anthony, that one with the horns, the otherswith their teeth, and the others with their paws and ongles, anddisturned, and all to-r
. Programme. y was beset for many years by devils. Sometimes Satantempted him in the form of a beautiful woman; at other timesgrotesque or horrid imps assailed him. And anon, to quote fromThe Golden Legend of J. de Voragine, who flourished in 1370 andwhose book published about 1470 was Englished by William Caxtonin 1483, they came in form of divers beasts wild and savage, of whomthat one howled, another siffled, and another cried, and anotherbrayed and assailed S. Anthony, that one with the horns, the otherswith their teeth, and the others with their paws and ongles, anddisturned, and all to-rent his body that W supposed well to die. Brahms was a great friend and admirer of the painter Anselm A. SCHMIDT & SON Established 1869IMPORTERS OF SILVER AND SHEFFIELD PLATEFINE PORCELAINS FINE AND EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS AND WEDDINGGIFTS OUR SPECIALTY KiwpoR?\i ^^7 BOYLSTON STREET HYANNIS^m^S^^ ^^^^ opposite the Hotel Copley Plaza WASHINGTON, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone:PASADENA, CAL. Back Bay 2931. Feuerbach (1829-80). Brahms dedicated his Nanie to HenrietteFeuerbach, the painters mother. It was composed soon after thedeath of her son. Feuerbach, a sensitive, vain, disappointed man,painted a life-size Temptation of Saint Anthony. The saint isin a forest. A young monk is kneeling with hands pressed on hisbreast. A scourge, book, and skull lie near him. Behind him,seen against the evening sky and the landscape, is the figure of awoman, who apparently calls to him, entreating him to leave hispure religious meditation and enter into Life. This picture, as otherpaintings by Feuerbach, was ridiculed when it was exhibited, sothat the artist destroyed it; but his friend and biographer Allgeyerhad made an engraving of it, and photographed an oil sketch forthe painting.* Kalbeck recalls a conversation he had with Brahmsabout the legend of the saints and their relationship to paintingand sculpture. There was talk of the incongruity shown in picturesof St. Anthony hj old painters o
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