Twelve great paintings; personal interpretations (1913)
Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931 · New York, Chicago [etc.] The Prang company · leaf 30
ime I look up from my desk.From all the pictures ever painted I have selected this for my constantcompanion. To me it embodies the whole history of the human spirit,past, present, and future, in one supreme vision. Long-tried, royalOdysseus is man in his struggle with nature, man in his warfare… … IV THE CREATION OF MANBy MICHELANGELO BY that trick of the mind called by the rhetoricians synecdoche,the Creation of Man, seen anywhere, in even the poorest print,means to me the whole Sistine Chapel. One glance at thefamiliar lines and my spirit has leaped the sea. I have escapedfrom the rattling…
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