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It is well modelled, and of a more pleasing type than usual. In 1507 was painted another very important work the altar-piece in the church of S. Medardo in Arcevia, a splendid Ancona, still in its original Gothic frame. The Virgin is of the same tender type as in the Brera and Florence Academy pictures, but with an added stateliness and gravity.
"The Murder of the Innocents" contains two figures in splendid action, the executioners, one with his dagger raised in act to strike, the other holding the child up by the leg both magnificent studies of the nude, and worthy of the painter of the Orvieto frescoes. Very inferior is the altar-piece of "The Baptism," in the same church of S. Medardo.
In the centre panel she sits enthroned, with the Child on her knee, clad in an embroidered robe, on the breast of which are two naked cherubs. On the left stand S. Medardo and S. Sebastian, on the right S. Andrew and S. Rock, each figure separated, as in the old polyptychs, by the pilasters of the frame.
The portraits in our drawing-room The Dictator Rosas who was like an Englishman The strange face of his wife, Encarnacion The traitor Urquiza The Minister of War, his peacocks, and his son Home again from the city The War deprives us of our playmate Natalia, our shepherd's wife Her son, Medardo The Alcalde our grand old man Battle of Monte Caseros The defeated army Demands for fresh horses In peril My father's shining defects His pleasure in a thunder storm A childlike trust in his fellow-men Soldiers turn upon their officer A refugee given up and murdered Our Alcalde again On cutting throats Ferocity and cynicism Native blood-lust and its effect on a boy's mind Feeling about Rosas A bird poem or tale Vain search for lost poem and story of its authorship The Dictator's daughter Time, the old god.
Now most of the young men had already been taken, or had disappeared from the neighbourhood in order to avoid service, and to make up this last twelve he had even to take boys of the age of this one, and Medardo would have to go.
This boy, Medardo, or Dardo, was the fifteen-years-old son illegitimate of course of the native woman our English shepherd had made his wife. Why he had done so was a perpetual mystery and marvel to every one on account of her person and temper.
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