Identifier: florenceinpoetry00ryan (find matches)
Title: Florence in poetry, history and art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
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Publisher: Chicago, Mayer and Miller Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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heart, he sanc-tifies his weaknesses into virtues. It is a weak-ness of Botticellis, this love of dancing motionand waved drapery; but why has he given itfull flight here? * After advising us to look up the history ofJudith, according to the chapters and verses hedesignated, Ruskin continues: And you will feel, after you have read thispiece of history, or epic poetry, with honor-able care, that there is somewhat more to bethought of and pictured in Judith, than paint-ers have mostly found it in them to show you;that she is not merely the Jewish Delilah tothe Assyrian Samson; but the mightiest, pur-est, brightest type of high passion in severewomanhood offered to our human memory.Sandros picture is but slight; but it is trueto her, and the only one I know that is; andafter writing out these verses (that is, theverses in the Bible which refer to her) youwill see why he gives her that swift, peace-ful motion, while you read in her face onlysweet solemnity of dreaming thought, My peo- 222
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Judith Botticelli The Artist of the Magnificent. pie delivered, and by my hand; and God hasbeen gracious to His handmaid. The triumphof Miriam over a fallen host, the fire of exultingmortal life in an immortal hour, the purity andseverity of a guardian angel—all are here; andas her servant follows, carrying indeed thehead, but invisible—(a mere thing to be car-ried—no more to be thought of)—she looks onlyat her mistress, with intense, servile, watchfullove. Faithful, not in these days of fear only,but hitherto in all the days of her life, andafterwards forever. There is also in the same room Botticellislovely Virgin and Child, called the Magnificat,as it represents our Lady writing in a book theMagnificat, that hymn of joy and praisewhich had burst from her after her salutationby Elizabeth: My soul doth magnify the Lord; And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Because he hath regarded the humility of hishandmaid; for behold, From henceforth all generations shall call meb

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