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 . he mastersrealism scarcely touched him, for Sandro was a dreamerand a poet. You will feel this, if you refer to the two picturesand compare his Madonna Enthroned with latters is much more realistic. It is true that it doesnot, as a whole, represent a real scene, for the Virginsthrone with its embroidered hanging or dossal, the can-opy or baldachin above it, and the richly decor
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 . he mastersrealism scarcely touched him, for Sandro was a dreamerand a poet. You will feel this, if you refer to the two picturesand compare his Madonna Enthroned with latters is much more realistic. It is true that it doesnot, as a whole, represent a real scene, for the Virginsthrone with its embroidered hanging or dossal, the can-opy or baldachin above it, and the richly decorated archwhich frames it in, are not what you w^ould expect tosee set up in a landscape. These are the conventionalfeatures, repeated with variations in so many INIadonnapictures intended for altarpieces. But how very realare the two peeps of landscape, drawn, we may feel sure,from nature: a great mans castle and a water-mill, twowidely separated phases of life, suggesting, perhaps,that the Christ came to save rich and poor alike. Thiswould be a touch of symbolism; another may appear inthe introduction of the apple, intended to remind us ofthe circumstances of the fall of man, which the Saviour [56]. MADONNA ENTHRONED ALESSANDRO BOTTICELLI BERLIN GALLERY ^ -?• V t:v* •». /\^, ^ ^ ? ? ^1 /^??>c m. , ^ J ^AV- :^ yp^/^ vVriV ? ?t w ^ XrKx^^fl n I » ? 1 -1^ r VIRGIN ENTHRONED UFFIZI GALLERY. FLORENCE HANS MEMLING BOTTICELLI-MEMLING came into the world to redress. But Memling was satis-fied merely to suggest the symbolism; and then devotedhimself to rendering with characteristic naivete a littlescene of realism. The angel on the left is simply anolder child, playfully attracting the babys attentionwith an apple; the Christ is simply a baby attractedby the colored, shining object; and the pretty scene iswatched intently by the other angel. On the IVIadonnasface, however, is an abstracted expression, as if herthoughts were far away; and indeed they are, yet not inpursuit of a
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