. Landscape and figure painters of America. Albert P. Ryder: The Forest of Arden Nevertheless, one of his noblest creations is a re-ligious subject, the Noli Me Tangere, and thoughit has little or nothing in common with any earlypicture of the scene, it surpasses most, if not all, ofthem in an elevation of imaginative mysticism thatdistinguishes it among the masterpieces of religiousart. He has painted the Christ as a suspendedspirit visible in human form and clothed in thecerements of the grave, the very color of the fleshemphasizing the impression of the body of onenewly arisen from the dead
. Landscape and figure painters of America. Albert P. Ryder: The Forest of Arden Nevertheless, one of his noblest creations is a re-ligious subject, the Noli Me Tangere, and thoughit has little or nothing in common with any earlypicture of the scene, it surpasses most, if not all, ofthem in an elevation of imaginative mysticism thatdistinguishes it among the masterpieces of religiousart. He has painted the Christ as a suspendedspirit visible in human form and clothed in thecerements of the grave, the very color of the fleshemphasizing the impression of the body of onenewly arisen from the dead. The old masters pic-tured His a living presence in this incident, themeasurable weight of which is supported by feetfirmly set upon the earth. Ryder has succeeded inconveying more convincingly, at least to the worldof today, the essential spiritual significance of thescene. In such a painting as the Marine owned by the value of the color in a compositionnotable rather for its design is very evident. Itpervades the picture wit
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