Category: History - Religious
This little book has been written for the pleasure of those amateurs who are more interested in the idea which inspires a picture than in the picture’s workmanship. Naturally, the more accomplished the artist, the more clearly and attractively is he able to set forth his meani...
This little book has been written for the pleasure of those amateurs who are more interested in the idea which inspires a picture than in the picture’s workmanship. Naturally, t...
2. Part 2These various methods of determining the value of different plants as symbols did not always accord. M. Huysman, in _La Cathédrale_, a very complete study in Christian symbolism...
3. Part 3It is only in modern times that Christ, grown to manhood, has been represented with a lily in His hand. An instance is the fresco illustrating the parable of the Wise and the Fo...
4. Part 4The rose has never been especially associated with the person of Christ. Origen, who held that the text which we render, ‘I am the rose of Sharon,’ was a self-description of our...
5. Part 5The Byzantine _Guide to Painting_[91] directs that Paradise be depicted as ‘surrounded by a wall of crystal and pure gold, adorned with trees filled with bright birds,’ so combi...
6. Part 6Botticelli painted a beautiful ‘Madonna of the Olives’ for the Church of S. Spirito. Vasari writes of it: ‘In S. Spirito in Florence he has painted a picture for the Chapel of t...
7. Part 7Paradise was embowered, according to Saint Paulino da Nola, in _floriferi caeleste nemus paradisi_, and curving branches of acanthus indicate Heaven in the mosaics of the Baptis...
8. Part 8More difficult to explain is the symbolism of the vase of lilies in the Annunciation upon the cover of a psalter, in fine English needlework of the thirteenth century.[212] The...
9. Part 9‘The Annunciation was the festival of early spring. Christ, whose birth was foretold by Gabriel, was a flower that blossomed from the stem of Jesse; His Mother, to whom the imag...
10. Part 10With the closing of the fifteenth century these thorn trellises passed from Northern art, but the application of the metaphor to the Virgin still persisted in Northern theology,...
11. Part 11The Scriptures give no indication whatever as to the size, shape or colour of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which grew in the midst of Eden, and it has bee...
12. Part 12But possibly the authority followed by the masters of the ‘Quattrocento,’ or by those churchmen who gave them their commissions, was Gregory the Great, for he says: ‘The pomegra...
13. Part 13It is noticeable that this figure of the Virgin, realized from the word picture of the Revelation of Saint John, was one that appealed strongly to the Spanish. She is ‘clothed w...
14. Part 14=BIBLE WAYS IN BIBLE LANDS: An Impression of Palestine.= By MAUDE M. HOLBACH, author of “Dalmatia, the Land where East meets West.” With Thirty-two beautiful Illustrations from...