Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . habit fluttering against the blue sky. Not a pleasantpicture, nor gracefully arranged. I have described these subjects as painted by Le Sueur; butthe same incidents have been often repeated and varied by otherpainters, employed to decorate the edifices of the CarthusianOrder. Whatever might have been the austerities of the monks,their churches and monasteries were in later times was emploved in the Chartreuse of Santa Maria de stirHngss 1 J Painters. las Cu
Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . habit fluttering against the blue sky. Not a pleasantpicture, nor gracefully arranged. I have described these subjects as painted by Le Sueur; butthe same incidents have been often repeated and varied by otherpainters, employed to decorate the edifices of the CarthusianOrder. Whatever might have been the austerities of the monks,their churches and monasteries were in later times was emploved in the Chartreuse of Santa Maria de stirHngss 1 J Painters. las Cuevas, near Seville, already rich in architecture, in tombs, Fordsplate, jewels, carvings, books, and pictures, and celebrated for of groves of orange and lemon trees, on the banks of the Gua-dalquiver, and represented the life of the founder and thefortunes of the Order in twenty-eight pictures. No one ever painted the Carthusians like Zurbaran, whostudied them for months together while working in theircloisters. Every head looks like a portrait; their white Stirling. s 2 LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC 24 St. Bruno praying in the desert. (Andrea Sacchi.) draperies chill the eye, as then cold hopeless faces chill theheart; but the faces are not always cold and hopeless. Thefine head in the Munich Gallery, styled St. Bruno with askull, is probably a study of a Carthusian monk, after nature,and nothing can exceed the intense devotional aspiration of theupward look and parted lips. The series of the life of St. Bruno, painted for the Chartreuseof Paular by Vincenzio Carducho, consists of fifty-four largepictures. Twenty-six represent scenes from the life of St. Bruno,and twenty-six are consecrated to the exaltation of the the series of Zurbaran, and that of Carducho, comprisethe subjects from the story of the Carthusian martyrs—a darkpage in our English history. The Charter-House was suppressed by Henry VIIL, after ST. BRUNO. 133 existing from 1372: it was
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