The cicerone: an art guide to painting in Italy for the use of travellers and students; (1908)
Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 168
The second work gives the su-pernatural by its reflection ia acompany of saints ; the famous S.Cecilia (in the Pinacoteca of Bo-(Jlogna, painted about 1S15). Onthe earth lie the worldly musical in-struments, half broken, unstriuged;even the pious organ falls out ofthe hands of the saints; all… … THE VISION OF EZEKIEL.7o face page 144. Raphael—The Transfiguration. 145 here substituted for tie conquest,itseK impossible to represent, ofheavenly tones oyer the earthly,■with a symbolism worthy of alladmiration. Cecilia is wisely repre-sented as a rich, physically power-ful being; only thus…
Painting, Italian
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