Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), b. 1862, binding designer · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co · leaf 416
and touch our hearts. And yet in some parts this modelling makes us feel thatthe individual is apart from prose history, and remainsintangible in regions to which we are forbidden to attainotherwise than by the gaze. This unforeseen mingling of life and immortality, thishappy fusion of the mythical… … 1 CXDIPUS 321 expresses the genius of evil governed bv the intelligence,beauty conquered by the mind. At the back of the caverninto which CEdipus has ventured, the painter has not hesi-tated to let us see the feet of a corpse and the skeletons ofthose who have been devoured by the Sphynx : another…
Painting · Art criticism
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