The Crucifixion - . Paolo Veronese rl 'A CSA too rk aa v » 3 Er eS chrial NS Crowned with Thorns-Titia Sketches of the Lives of the '. Men Who Created These Masterpieces of Art, and a Description of the Pictures. i he world t galleriés int orld a al Sone excel, the magnite Sie allery' of the Louvre ent Dieie hase. its beginning i the works, chiefly by Francis 1. ¢ Fountainbleau. fee Peter Paul Rubens. tube is seen ster' Paul Rubens is se I for an entire gallery is Riven over to his largest paintings T "1425 these pictures were bro ght - - Parls, where they received - final touches rom Rubens hiner The Crueifixion, ometime sew smrist On the Cross. the oatést works of this prolific artist whose pictures AACE se mani) of the noted galie . Rudd very large Ei fares. oh role size. The eal wbens in emotionwi ie genjus of, ten 'at its best in 'the pl ah of Christ. Rub- Men rtinys man Christ with muscles of the arms the natural sate ad ht ¢ -pody is thrown upon gh - By jegs and feet are all those "a well formed bhu- "bell he sweet, sad face of = : man being. Christ and the delicate | on Jung 28th 1517, the dying ng! 'the face of the mother former home at Antwerp. she Crucifixion Louvre Gallery; Pari Am British eee testes ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 71, Whig 1913 Christ Bearing the Cross -- dar an Base 1 awd cy e Crucifixion -Peler Paul Rubens Rubens' father there fs fascination in studying the: thorns add died several years later and the mo- various emotions on the faces of the y of the pic- | ther and children returned to ler different characters---anger, h®tred, e From' pity' afd love are shown at their youthful, there, the start he showed remarkable, tal- Dest. pout the ent and when Argh Duke Albert apd ré the the Infants Isabelle came to Ant weeping Mag | werp, young Rubens was OTORS. : daten at the foo rs sidered. by ath COMTI soon became a favorite with Bure- of the ideal om Jesus! pean Royalty, & his life reads' thi pe AEE Man more like fiction than fact. Before! ands GUEIUE Cafing with he was thirty-five his fame had expressing spread over the continent of Europe. His death | Hig death octurred in 1640: human 3 FRAC, 3 its Domerieo Ghirlandajo ? THY Christ Bearing the Cross by Dom- fon. with its "enfth- | enico Ghirlandajo is remarkable for? coloring i © a duil plains behind the perfect drawing and coloring of! quake sky 8% Ry blue robe of thes many faces, every ome of which the cross. The TIE PIC "by Joho (stands out like a single , portrait. | {ful contrast to the gray The face of Christ could: Rapdiy be FM (whic the Magdalen 13 called ideal although it is ona of the | dn Wer the picture iS hest conceptions of = the clothed. AUOEGNEE los of he Christ. The Virgin and the Ma | one of :the Teal UF al daleh and Veronica win the tew-| louvre: ol pors &!' el are perhaps the figures. | peter af of CO | The picture has all the queer &olor:, Slgen, westphalls, TEC "contend, jug of the fiftesaty century, and Any wri v Te $ Jogne 4& *0 Mg i : : -~ + pountenan : lines both SOTTOW and hope : charged wa® born in Florence in 1440. is con. with the arrangement and decora~ yo as oné tion of the tylumphal arches. Hae. tra suffering | all THe artist' Domenico. Ghirlandajo was 'the son of a silk weaver, and As a he was apprenticed to the 'of his father but later took up arts' He was a friend of the great Botticelll and the influence is seen in the Ghirlandajo pictures. Titian. _ Christ Between 'A Roman Soldier and Executioner is the work of the Italign painter Titlan, another of Eu. rope's most prolific artists. Here the an of Sorrews is seen just before He was nailed to the cress. The cfown of thorns had been presséd' down until great drops of blood are sean on hls peck. tells the story of His suffering for t persuaded to accept The 'a large one and well hung. The face itself' mankind. In the cage of the ex-| ecitioner Tit'ap has pictured a man who looks kindly upon Christ as one v His: rine. Roman soldiar, how-! over, seemy to be yelling at : ¥ crowd, apparently anxious to hava] the affair over. The picture is de-| in face and figure. Titian was: so noted. Chest Crowned with Thorns by the | same artist shows a more vigorous handling of the subject, dor there we seo. the torture of G ~pain and sorrow are splendidly depicted on the face as the men bear down the thoras wpon the sacred head. The canvas is | man beings. times Titian, who was an Italian, born in 1477. The son of a distin. | upon canvas. unéventiul 1le during his ear wallssof a house, using flower juice for esloring. nd stil very voung | he was sent to Vemice to study art. Likd "Rubens his taent was so ver. her. reat | jts story was called to Rowe by the Pope. iand the jecta--his portrayal of Christ being | The artist, puigted in later life bis faves son ol a seulptor, { ite: daughter, Lavinia, was. his model ¢'lebrated artist wag Tiziano ¥ His pictures are found 'in al cry gallery of note in Europe. - years, | head surrounded by a curiows bald. | with the but before he was ton vears of age! Ths mothir liad in g hall fainting his talent for art developed, for as a| dition at the foot of the cross, whil child he painted a Madopna upon the | the Magdalen, robed in white, bends and on the neck of a : vadness by safety de | Ices. that he soon sprung into fawéd and] pfeted on the faces. The sk He diad in 1576 | Ygcelli, | genivs ®ve. wera gen to the world. Surely , it dis one rio is what | the eross everybody seems ing. rather out of pre 'and the robes of the and was the | black Andrae da Solario. exception of the fi for that branch of art, but soon gave t up, preferving painting. He thea i |licate in its tints dnd the faces are! a victim of the plague which during studied with several a : days In rtists at 'the | work dtawn with that rare skill for which | that year claimed fifty thonsand bu. | Verona Art School. ¥t had, howe 4 The real name of the | never produced in painter of original until the works of Veronege | jig Since that | ment, time many famots painters have been | this great sce i upils there, but the originality Paolo Yeronese, + Veton: 82 has never beén The Urocifixion by Veronese js gome- | died in Venice in 1588. called by «artists 'the view cf that event. was! ¢f the oddest concepiion¥ ever The pittots guished soldier, the little boy lad an | Chest between the two Domenico Ghirlands jo srugifixion-andrea Solrio | 1438. He studied art at Venice. His work shows ths inftuence of da Vinei i and Verrachio, especially in his paint. ings in the cathedrils of France. The Crucifixion in (he. Louvey is consider ed among his finest works: \ Andrae Mantegna. : Tte Crucifixion by Andrea Monte;na in one of the best known pictures of the scene of His death. 1t is painted on wood and possésses remarkable color effects. Here wo find the long, angular figure which is not beautiful, but. one forgets this when looking at the saintly 'heavty of the face of i Christ in contrast with thoss of the thieves on either side. © The Virgin's faces shows repressed -sogrow, while that of the Magdalen is pitiful in the ! extreme. John : eross cf tha thief on the leit, while the Roman soldiers grouped about seem to be discussing the event The clouds in the background through which the sun is breaking are well done--in fact, the whole work is remarkable and, one might stady it for hours, Apdrea Mantegna was born in Padua in 143). 15ttle is known of his parentage except that they, were poor and Andrea was a herder of sheep in cud Ll childhood. ~~ ~ Although he pain which found a re ie was always in debt, it is hinted that his death. at seventy-five was hastened by worry over his financial affairs. As already stated one might spend the study of these t of famous artists, 'enc! | whom had his own point of view, Ma own peculiar conception molded ' by own religious het and environ thus producing a variety of ee, ne which has both! an of | gducabions]. and devolional valde to ver, equalled. He! gil true lovers of art. Necessarily Slow. A California youngster had been x put The Crucifixion by Andrea da So | permitted to visit a boy friend on 'shows | la in the present A ft ' , bis would be eglled an action picture, for leave there at 5 o'clock. He did-not igure on | arrive home till ay 'the strict condition that he was to 7 and his = mother be mov- | was very angry. The youngster in- While" the figure of Christ spemy sky efitos! dice for the raiment of Christ ate ex- mile?" She reathed for visia of Jerusalem in the "cellent. The rocks in the back While there he painted a number of | distome: add much to the beauty peiures; exreliing in. religious sub.| (he large, wellhung canvas. 3 Paolo © Veronese; was to none. Jo' any ol kis - pic| born at Verona, in 158, Solario was born \gesr. Milan ound | "Now of are covered with rich, grien foliage, Bgures group?d g iabout thy cross are almost emtirily in | "Charlie Wilson i me, 4 sisted, however, that he had obeyed 5 : 4 riion, owing to | her orders and had. not lingered un- A Rowan soldier, 'with kis: the extreme length of the arme--the . wsecessarily on the way. horse; 8 an | expFossive faces of ths Virgin, © the, inter. ed speetapor. The picture tells | Ma dil n and John make up for this said . his mother, thet it took: you The Roman soldiers throwing "Do you expect: me to believe," two hours fo walk a quarter of a the, whip. you teil me the the hoy sir, will truth?" ai ife SEO "Ye-es, mamma," sol turtle--and I in--~go Lied UL extreme. John stands in ths atfitude Tof prayer beside the