The Portland daily press., 1877-09-28

Cenci-familiar everywhere in this country by
IT'S reproduction in chromo-ditters from the
real Beatrice In almost every particular, and is
no portrait at all
In the Royal Academy, London, this year is
an admired Illustration of a somewhat ancient
event. in which waste of waters, dove and
piece OF timber are the principal features. This
remark OF lady bystander was overheard:
How do DISLIKE these perplexing pictures in
which one never knows what is intended A
pigeon in a tree by the seaside suggests abso-
lttely nothing"
Mr.. August Belmont has been asked BY the
artist Bouguereau to lend for the great Pari
Exhibition his Twins now in the possession
of that banker The request is urgent. Mrs
A. I. Stewart has been asked by the artist
Detaille to confer a similar favor. These ar
lists desire to be represented as creditably as
possible at the exhibition.
Mr.. George II. Boughton's new picture of
Washington Jrving's old Dutch governor of
New York, "Wilhelmus Kieft," known as
William the Testy, is snow on its way to the
Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington. Ameri-
can critics who have seen it fully confirm the
Mandatory judgment already passed upon it on
the other side of the Atlantic The picture is
about five and one-half by four feet, and repre-
seDts street view in the village of Manhat-
tan. From house on the right steps out the
angry governor, with his famous edict prohibit
ing the smoking of tobacco. Behind him is his
wife, and before him in the 'Bowerie'' areas
Irving describes them-"a vast multitude,
armed with pipes and tobacco boxes"
NJ Detaille likes so much his picture Of LIE
Regiment Qui Passe. which is in the Corcoran
Gallery in Washington, that he has sent
polite request to the trustees to permit him to
exhibit it at the Paris Exposition next year.
The Louvre has just acquired Last Supper,
by Tiepolo, one of the Venetian masters; the
celebrated landscape by Marilhat, Ruins near
Cairo, masterpiece of Oriental art; and a fine
drawing ofta portrait of man said to be by
AlDrecht Durer; also two or three pictures Of
the German and Flemish schools. One of
these is dated 1926, and signed "Mabuse.''
The figure of Moses recently erected in the
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, by the Catholic
temperance societies is represented with horns
This, to many persons, seems strange and the
following explanation is given: In the
authoritative translation of the Bible in
use by Protestants, Exodus xxxiv 90, we read
that when Moses came down from the mount,
"thet skin OF his face shone," that is, shot
forth radiant beams of light, as the Hebrews
express it, In the Douay translation of this
passage it is written that when Moses came
down from the mount his face was 'horned by
the conversation of the LORD" The Latin vul-
gate thus renders it "horned' by confining the
sense of the Hebrew word "karan," which sig
mites in general "rayed." From accepting
this limited translation, the Italian painters
and scuptors have represented Moses with
horns, instead of rays of light.
Worcester (Mass.) has taken steps for the
formation of an art association of broad scope,
with two definite objects to be at once secured
loan exhibition of paintings, statuary, en-
cravings and photographs, and course OF lee
lures on art.
A California; artist has painted the crucifix-
ion in wholly original way Following an
cient descriptions of the cross instead of prece-
dents OF painters, he has made it but little
taller than man. and placed midway pro-
jecting saddle on which the crucifed One sits.
Modern artists have omitted this, but it is obvi-
Gus that the outstretched arms could not MAIN
| tais, nor could the nailed hands have supported
| the body as usually represented. All historians,
| say the legs were tied to the cross, and after
wards spikes were driven through the feet. as
through the hands. There is no mention of a
foot-rest, but the artist has supplied one, be-
cause the feet cannot be spiked without. The
inscription on the cross, affixed to the ton Ia
purposely and ingeniously illegible, because
each OF four gospels gives it differently. A
writer thus speaks of the figure: "a more
| spiritual countenance We never saw. The hair
| is auburn, long and in ringlets. TIE person is
spare and of short stature" AT the foot of the
| cross are only the executioners of the law No
one is represented as piercing the side with
| spear. Nor are there any connections. as Mary
| and John, present, this being direct contra
diction of the three synoptic gospels 1t is usual
| to show blood flowing from the wounds in the
hands and feet. This is omitted because science
tells US that wrought iron, being our best styp-
| tic, instantly stops the flow of blood 1t is pop
ularly supposed that the sacrifice consisted in
| the shedding of blood. Paul makes this indis-
pensable. Yet 1t is mistake A slight cut on
| schoolboy's finger sheds more blood. Death
| results from exhaustion, not from bleeding.