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The monk was busily retouching the sketch of the Virgin of the Annunciation. He looked up, and saw Agnes standing gazing towards the setting sun, the pale olive of her cheek deepening into a crimson flush. His head was too full of his own work to give much heed to the conversation that had passed, but, looking at the glowing face, he said to himself,
So I think you had all better conclude at once not to go from home this summer," said Mr. Ludlow. A gush of tears from Emily and Adeline followed this annunciation, accompanied by a look of decided disapprobation from the mother. Mr. Ludlow felt deeply tried, and for some moments his resolution wavered; but reason came to his aid, and he remained firm. He was accounted a very rich merchant.
Go back with me, brethren, in your thoughts, to the beginning of the century the close of which we commemorate. It is the Festival of the Annunciation in 1783; and we find ourselves in an inland village of what was, ere long, to become the Diocese of Connecticut, the village of Woodbury.
Disagreeable experience at an inn. The Riviera. Genoa Serra Palace in Genoa. Starts for Rome. Rain in the mountains. A brigand. Carrara. First mention of a railroad. Pisa. The leaning tower. Rome at last. Begins copying at once. Ceremonies at the Vatican. Pope Pius VIII. Academy of St. Luke's. St. Peter's. Chiesa Nuova. Painting at the Vatican. Beggar monks. Festa of the Annunciation.
The four windows on the south side of the nave show the Annunciation, the dream of Joseph, the salutation of Elizabeth, and the refusal of the stable to the parents of the infant Redeemer. In the first window of the transept is presented the inn-keeper's refusal of refuge to Joseph and Mary.
I had dazzled my eyes with the loveliness of Correggio's 'Madonna, and had marvelled at the wondrous blue of her robe a blue so deep and intense that I used to think one might scrape away the paint till a hole was bored in the canvas and yet not reach the end of that fathomless azure tint; I had studied the warm hues of Titian; I had felt ready to float away in the air with the marvellous 'Angel of the Annunciation' and with all these thoughts in me, how could I content myself with the ordinary aspiration of modern artists?
The seal she held in her hand a sort of Annunciation in which genius shone like an immanent light had the powers of a talisman. Hortense felt such a surge of happiness, that she almost doubted whether the tale were true; there was a ferment in her blood, and she laughed wildly to deceive her cousin.
Behind them came the company of the Prophets in their order, and scenes from the New Testament, such as the Annunciation, the Three Holy Kings riding on great camels and on other rare beasts, very well arranged; also how our Lady fled to Egypt very devout and many other things, which for shortness I omit. At the end came a great Dragon which St.
There are many works here given to Lorenzo, who seems to have been a better painter than he was a sculptor: the Madonna and Child , the Annunciation , the Noli me Tangere , and above all, the Venus , are beautiful, but less living than one might expect from the pupil of Verrocchio.
Upstairs, in the cells, and pre-eminently in the passage, where his best known Annunciation is to be seen, Angelico is at his best. In each cell is a little fresco reminding the brother of the life of Christ and of those by Angelico it may be said that each is as simple as it can be and as sweet: easy lines, easy colours, with the very spirit of holiness shining out.
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