Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 92
er,instead of an abstraction conjured up in the brain;and heaven, far from being a vague abode of di-aphanous spirits, was an actual city with gates ofgold and flowery meadows, where angels sang anddanced, as in the pictures of Fra Angelico. Butwhat do such representations, such picturings, meanto… … THEMES OF THE MASTERS 45 There are pictures, plenty of them, still standingupon church altars in Italy to-day; and there areworshippers, plenty of them, still kneeling beforethem; but not one of the kneelers ever asks, Whatdoes the picture mean? They hnow. We of analien race, Puritans, Quakers,…
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