The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-01-11


but little, if they read it at all; but all the
sacred scenes have been put before the great
masses, and not printers ink but the
p pebsgens art must Of the
Scriptural kfio j = i q
paintings and efz- -
Holman Hunts ''Chris5s2. ~ 'Tsynnie.r p, 81
Neronesels ''Magdalen Washing the Feat Of
thrist; Raphael's Michael the Archangel u
AIoert DGrerS Dragon of the Apocalypse y
Michael Angeles plague Of fba
Ilery serpents;n Tintoret's Flight into
Esypt;n Rubens Descent from the 1,,oes.Si
/ Leonardo Da Vinci's Last SUPERB Cianda,s
s,ueen Of Skeba;n Bellinis Madonna at
Milan" Orcagna's LAST Judgment y and
hundreds OF miles Of pictures if they were
put IN me, Illustrating, displaying. drama
s s-Hllg, HIadiating Bible truths until tho
scriptures are not today 50 much on paner
as on canvas, not so much in ink as in all tbe |
colors OF the spectrum Il. 1888 forth from |
Strasburg, Germany, there came child that 1
was 70 eclipse IN speed and boldness ami |
grandeur anything and everything that tho
apl earei on the SKY at the crao-
lion, raul Gustav Dora. Al aievan
years Of age he published marvsioo, iitba.
graphs OF his own. Saying nothing OF what
ne did Tor Millions Paradise Lost, enbla11n-
ing Il on the attention Of the world he &C. |
up tbs Book Of Books. the monarch of Iitares
ture' the Bible. and in his pictures '.The
Creation OF Light, THE Trial of Abrahamis
Faith" The Burial of Sarah, Joseph Sold
Dy MS Brethren The Brazen Serpentn
n Boa and Ruth, David and Goliath, . The
lIanslgurauon," THE Marriage in Cana -
Babylon Fallen" and two hunired and
hVe Scriptural scenes in all, with 4 boldnass
siiu grasp and almost supernatural afflatus | ,
Duat make the heart throb. and the brain
10, anu the Tears start, and the cheeks , ,
Dlanch, and the entire nature quake with the !
tremendous things of God and eternitv and ,
'ne dead- l actually staggered down the !
stsps OF the London Art Gallery under the
power OF Dores Christ leaving the !
-. = i,t'oIlliii. Profess You to be Christian 4
man or woman and see no divine mission in +
ar, and acknowledge you no Obligation i
either in thanks to God or mani
II Is no more the word of God when mn, | n
oelore US IN printers ink than by skfllfuiy Il
b,d,Is, oi 9l colors or designs on metal
n morals was presented by Hogarth. the a.
laInter, IN his two pictures 'sThe Palsa's n
rrogress, and "The Miser's Feast.1 and by u u
hoInas Coles engravings of the Voyage Of n
human Lie, and the Course of FInY3rasi |
md by Turner's Slave Shipn God IN Art, =
-hrist IN Arti Patriarchs prophets and ! =
postles in art Angels in artl Heaven I'm in 4
III til
The world and the church ought to come !"
0 the higher appreciation Of the diyine &,
lission OF pictures, yet the authors of them -
ave generally been left to semi-staryatjon- ii,
est, the great painter, toiled in unappre n
ation TIL, being great skater, while on or
le ice ne formed the acquaintance of General oil
owe, OF the English army and through -
'ming to admire West as a skater IA
icy gradually came TO appreciate as -.
uch that which he accomplished bv his ~ 81
md as by his heel Poussin, the mighty NJ
inter , was pursued, and had nothing with | vii
men TO defend himself against the mob but | he
e artists portfolio which he held over his ~ ~
al to keep of the stones hurled at him. a.
lie pictures Of Richard Wilson, of England ' 9aI
re sold for fabulous sums Of money after g. SSa,
!, ,. death n but the living painter UNI UNI
llion cheese From 1910 to 1913 there were zen
~ pictures wlllfully destroyed In the ~
gn or queen Elizabeth it was the habit of app
ne people to spend much of their time in 70
ocnng pictures to pieces In the n mn,
Tered by Parliament that all pictures acc.
Christ be burnt Painters were 60 %
lly treated and Inundated in the begin huss
z OF the eighteenth century that thev ana
,e lowered clear dowl out Of the sublimity ~or
their art, and Obliged TO give rninufa lar
cunts OF what they did with their colors and
painters bill which came to publication dea'
'cotland, in 1907 indicated The paintar put
been touching up some old pictures COLO
ne church, and he sends in this itemize3 LOT
TO the vestry: 10 filling mn their
X IN the Rod Sea and repairing the dam pref'
A. g., 1,..,-,,-., JAIL Vi or pa
OF teeth for the Iioness:" 'ito repairing
uchadnezzars beard:n "to giving hin e read
le cheek OF Eve on presenting the annie excel
dam to making bride for the Good after
a =, horse, and mending one of his cell
TO putting on a new handIe on ure 0
IS basket and fitting bulrushes. and step
ny more fuel TO the fire in Nebucbad- OF pa
ars furnace So painters were hnmiI. lng;"
clear down below the majesty Of their bling
The oldest picture in England. a nor ma sntn :
OF Chaueer, though now Of great yaIna l-''t
picked out OF lumber garrett. Graat 1rst 81
the trials of Quentin Matsvs who toiIeJ them.
ON blaeksmith's anvil. till as a p1inter bright
IN VIDE recognition. The first mission. help y
TO Mexico made the fatal mistata Tight
'troying pictures, for the loss Of which words
ID religion must ever lament But why 1host