Seven Angels of the Renascence

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: it men make;ngevents? or 'Sirring events great men ? in Michael An- began his life kstel Caprese, He Tuscan vil-, in 1575, the ft were stirring ed. Italy, di- hes' cauldron th of wolf hell-broth: he Domini with Savona- 5a]s of Florence;with Louis of France besieging Milan; with Caesar Borgia drowning his brother in the Tiber; with Venice and Spain in league against Naples; with one Pope poisoned by drinking of the cup he had prepared for his friend; with another preaching a war of extermination in the East; with Torque- mada practising extermination in the West; with the Printing Press flashing its lightnings from the North; with Luther thundering at the doors of the Vatican;?it seems an odd thing that Art should come upon the scene. And yet at this crisis, in the very midst of the hurly-burly, three boys are born, who?together with Da Vinci to lead and Correggio to follow?shall complete the roll-call of the five greatest painters the world has known. Perhaps it is the old story of the darkness of night making the brightness of the stars. But I think not. The day has come, and these stars are still shining in the heavens. They are like? The crowne which Ariadne wore Upon her yvory forehead? Being now placed in the firmament. Moreover, the light which falls from them has solved again the old riddle which we could never have solved for ourselves any more than did the Philistines? Out of Strength came forth Sweetness. For what is stronger than the Sword ofLEARNING TO SEE civil war, or the sleuth-hounds of the Inquisition ? ?and what is sweeter than the Madonna and -n Child of the Renascence ? Let us now ask ourselves a straight question. Are our own lives complete unless we take into them the spirit of the lives of the great painters ? I plead for t...