. Silver jubilee memorial, 1868-93. f Rubens as in the un-equalled discourse of Bourdaloue. No one can look upon the LastSupper by Leonardo de Vinci without being inspired with asublime conception of that holiest event. Thus the most renowned works of the great masters were everinspired by Religion—the delicate cherubini of Angelico, the As-sumption of Titian, the marvelous improvisations of it Correggio devoted his Cupolas, with all their grace and chiar-oscuro. Therein Domenichino found his Last Communion of , the second painting in the world. The Christ of CarloDolce
. Silver jubilee memorial, 1868-93. f Rubens as in the un-equalled discourse of Bourdaloue. No one can look upon the LastSupper by Leonardo de Vinci without being inspired with asublime conception of that holiest event. Thus the most renowned works of the great masters were everinspired by Religion—the delicate cherubini of Angelico, the As-sumption of Titian, the marvelous improvisations of it Correggio devoted his Cupolas, with all their grace and chiar-oscuro. Therein Domenichino found his Last Communion of , the second painting in the world. The Christ of CarloDolce and the Madonnas of Sassoferrato and Murillo are in everyhousehold. From Religion, Raphael, that prince of painters, drewthe epics which compose the Vatican galleries. Not only werehis first essays works of faith, but also those which he wrought inhis zenith, such as, The Dispute of the Holy Sacrament, Heli-odorus, and the Miracle of Bolsena. When he preferred to fol-low only his imagination, he strayed away as in the commissions. <r. si yiRT FN THE SERVICE OF RELIGION. 89 for the story of Psyche; but later on he turned himself to the grandTransfiguration from the midst of which he passed to beholdit in heaven. And Michael Angelo? I can never cease wondering how inthe Sistine Chapel he has portrayed the two extreme points of thelife of the human race—the Creation and the Last Judgment. Music. One step higher in the scale of the fine arts, and the mingledsymphony of color, light, and shade, bursts into harmony ofsound. Music is the voice of angels speaking to our souls. It isthe voice of some strayed spirit exiled from Heaven and doomed toearth to teach man to love and to hope. AVandering and tellingof its celestial home, it goes pouring its soul in sounds that stillretain the heavenly echoes. Music by its nature tends heavenward;we can almost see those high silvery notes stream upward throughthe air and pierce the blue sky; then when we no longer hear thestrain, it has n
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