American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . ar character. Pursuing our classification, we come to a Scriptural group. Its best examples are a Deatliof Abel, and a weird, small Crucifixion, in which only the foot of the cross, with the Marysclustered about it, is seen, against a lurid sky. Abel, a graceful boy, is stretched below hisaltar fire. The spot where he lies is in shadow, while all the country round about, whereverthe murderer may have turned for refuge, is bright with a searching light. An allegorical Starof Bethleliem, in which the Eastern kings are seen
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . ar character. Pursuing our classification, we come to a Scriptural group. Its best examples are a Deatliof Abel, and a weird, small Crucifixion, in which only the foot of the cross, with the Marysclustered about it, is seen, against a lurid sky. Abel, a graceful boy, is stretched below hisaltar fire. The spot where he lies is in shadow, while all the country round about, whereverthe murderer may have turned for refuge, is bright with a searching light. An allegorical Starof Bethleliem, in which the Eastern kings are seen approaching on their camels below, while aconclave of shadowy angels and prophets of old appear on a massive cloud above, vies withthese in ambition, but is of an unpleasant harshness in parts. Then there is a department of pure, formal landscape composition. The artist shows a com-mand of the means by which size, sense of distance, and symmetrical proportion are combines, in the principal effort, entitled Central Italy, the elements of a stretch of eighty.
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