Twelve great paintings; personal interpretations (1913)
Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931 · New York, Chicago [etc.] The Prang company · leaf 78
of one of Americas greatestseers ring and echo in my ears: From imperfections murkiest cloud,Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,One flash of heavens glory. To fashions, customs discord,To the mad Babel-din, the deafening orgies,Soothing each lull a strain is heard, just heard.From some far… … TOTOX^^^^mmmmmm^^ XI THE ASSUMPTION By TITIAN THE greatest paintings are in one way like the greatest books.Who ever mastered the Dialogues of Plato, or Kants Critique,at the first reading? Who ever felt satisfied with his firstreading of the Divina Commedia, or of the immortal Faust?When I once…
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