How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . mbolic forms,taken from Egyi^tian mythology, which fill the ceil-ing space. How tired his neck becomes, and possibly hisbrain, by the alternate reference to the book and to theceiling! He experiences quite a relief when his eyescome down to a lower level and are greeted by a row ofstately figures, prophets of the Old Testament, as hesees by the name written under each. How pleasant tobe abl
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . mbolic forms,taken from Egyi^tian mythology, which fill the ceil-ing space. How tired his neck becomes, and possibly hisbrain, by the alternate reference to the book and to theceiling! He experiences quite a relief when his eyescome down to a lower level and are greeted by a row ofstately figures, prophets of the Old Testament, as hesees by the name written under each. How pleasant tobe able to enjoy them without laborious study of aprinted page! Very likely the visitor is already familiarwith them, for their photographs have appeared in greatnumbers throughout the country. The popular taste,not always right in such matters, has justly singled themout as the best feature of Sargents earlier there is a later one ; as the visitor turns, it greetshim from the other end of the hall. Here again is a rowof figures, this time of archangels ; but most noticeableis the treatment of the upper part, where figures, sym-bolizing the Persons of the Trinity, sit enthroned. Their [428].
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