. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. bjects 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 sumptuous. p^ntore?8l>Zurbaran was employed in the Chartreuse of Santa Maria de Handbooklas Cuevas, near Seville, already rich in architecture, in tombs, of Spain-plate, jewels, carvings, books, and pictures, and celebrated forits groves of orange and lemon t
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. bjects 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 sumptuous. p^ntore?8l>Zurbaran was employed in the Chartreuse of Santa Maria de Handbooklas Cuevas, near Seville, already rich in architecture, in tombs, of Spain-plate, jewels, carvings, books, and pictures, and celebrated forits groves of orange and lemon trees, on the banks of the G-ua-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. 4 Every head looks like a portrait; their white Stirling,draperies chill the eye, as their cold hopeless faces chill theheart; but the faces are not always cold and hopeless. The LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC fine 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 ofthe upward 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 , and twenty-six are consecrated to the exultation of theOrder. Both the series of Zurbaran, and that of Carducho,comprise the subjects from the story of the Carthusian martyrs—a dark page in our English history. The Charter-House was suppressed by Henry VIII., afterexisting from 1372 : it was founded by Sir Walter Manny, ofchivalrous memory; and the history of the dissolution of the ST. BRUNO. monastery, and the fate of the last unhappy monks, is feelinglyrelated in Knights London. The prior Haughton and elevenCarthusian monk
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