. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. When therefore a painter goes be-yond the use of ordinary mortals, to the depicting ofHim who alone has been perfectly divine in life andcharacter, whose every action and very aspect musthave radiated spirituality and uplifted all that beheldhim, the painter uses the one, perfect, highest mediumfor his accomplishments; so that if the work be welldone, it must speak to the soul of the spectator ascould nothing else inanimate. Of course it was not in pursuance of this truth, nowso patent to us, that the medieval artists devotedthemselves exclus
. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. When therefore a painter goes be-yond the use of ordinary mortals, to the depicting ofHim who alone has been perfectly divine in life andcharacter, whose every action and very aspect musthave radiated spirituality and uplifted all that beheldhim, the painter uses the one, perfect, highest mediumfor his accomplishments; so that if the work be welldone, it must speak to the soul of the spectator ascould nothing else inanimate. Of course it was not in pursuance of this truth, nowso patent to us, that the medieval artists devotedthemselves exclusively to Biblical subjects, or thatGiotto covered these walls with illustrations of thelives of Jesus and the Virgin; but because, until thetime of the full Renaissance, it was entirely by theChurch and the Monastery, and upon the churchesand the monasteries, that they were given their vast majority of the people were then unable toread; and so, as in this Chapel, the Church spread thedivine story before them in pictures which they could. PADUA. BASILICA OF SAN ANTOXIOT .,-x»;-v—,~^^r
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