REFERENCES FOR RAPHAEL.
Life of Raphael by Bell.
Life of Raphael by Sweetster.
Life of Raphael by Vasari.
Schools and Masters of Painting by Radcliffe.
History of Art by Luebke.
History of Art by Mrs. Heaton.
Great Artists by Mrs. Shedd.
The Fine Arts by Symonds.
Early Italian Painters by Mrs. Jameson.
SUBJECTS FOR LANGUAGE WORK.
1. The Boy Raphael at Home.
2. My Favorite Madonna.
3. Stories of St. Francis of Assisi.
4. What I know of Fresco Painting.
5. Looking for Buried Treasures in Rome.
6. A Day in the Roman Forum.
7. A Day with the Boy Raphael.
8. The Legend of the Madonna della Sedia.
9. Raphael and His Friends.
10. Raphael the Student.
COURT IN THE ALCAZAR.
“Velazquez is in art an eagle; Murillo is an angel. One admires Velazquez and adores Murillo. By his canvasses we know him as if he had lived among us. He was handsome, good and virtuous. Envy knew not where to attack him; around his crown of glory he bore a halo of love. He was born to paint the sky.”
—DE AMICIS.
“Murillo could paint the sacred fervor of the devotee, or the ecstasy of the religious enthusiast, as well as the raggedness of the mendicant, or the abject suffering of Job.”
—CHARLES BLANC.
MURILLO
AND
SPANISH ART.
Spain was not blessed as Italy was with one generation after another of artists so great that all the world knows them even at this distant day. Spain has only two unquestionably great painters that stand out as world-artists. They are Velazquez and Murillo. The former painted with unrivalled skill the world of noblemen among whom he lived. The other, not surrounded by courtiers, looked into his own pure, religious soul, and into the sky above, and gave us visions of heaven—its saints and its angels.
It is impossible to study either of these men apart from the other, or apart from the art records of Spain. To und<