| Show k V Va I bc J a iVE 0 ornUM rn r rI I 1 6 J JV L D DI V v rj t 11 1 50 f I I I t k I hd L ii T 1 t I 1 t 1 J I m n 1 I 41 V JW P I p S far back as history goes the theme ot of mother child op ap the human heart I I to as a nothing else elle has ha ever done I In ancient Greek art the mother of all the IMn Hying was represented with a shining nimbus about her head The holy child Is i prominent In Egyptian mythology The Tho word madonna Is t Italian mean meanIng log Ing rny my lady The madonna appears early In tho symbolism ot of the primi primitive primitive tive Christian church The Tho flut of her Is In the Byzantine paintings at first without nn an infant alone Ione wIth anne extended praying The ot of the tho virgIn mother ot of the centuries ot of Christianity was merely a crude nat flat painting upon wood gold upon a dark background an nj that was all ai thero was of her no Idealism to beautify her and appeal to the Imagination She Sho was wac merely nn an tt p I In the year the Christian church council at Ep Ephesus proclaimed the Vir Virgi gi nun Mary ol the Mother Molher of God iii 1 her wr child I I I In her arms should b enthroned and employed In church symbolism m that time line religious legend and art be beI began gan to cluster around the holy mother and infant the Ideals Idels ever Increasing In beauty and till the pictured representation of the mother and the Christ child reached Its lis culmination of glory and splendor In Sistine Madonna just before his early death In 1620 1520 at the ago age of thirty seven Thia wonderful painting Is In Inthe Inthe the Dresden gallery 11 ti Ideal Is not Mary mother ot of the Christ child but Mary Iary the qUeen of heaven Jenen correspond corresponding ing more nearly to the ancIent concep conception conception tion or of the mother or of nil all the living II as IIan asan an object of adoration t t tor or the worlds mot most famous madonna pictures there lire re eleven painted by nine great creat artists These are In the I me In which their great ms ma donnas ere fInished Peru TItian Andrea del Sarto Cor Cerreggio reggio hans Holbein and Murillo Six of at these artists artist were eln was vas German Rubens was ost celebrated celebrate of Flemish painters painter Murillo was It is III notable the nimbus which I surrounds the hu of th the virgin duro dur durI I Ini the anti or 1 a thousand years ears afterward Is Ie omitted I 4 from about the tha heads head ot both and child In great Murillo painted many pictures picture or of the Virgin Mary the subject of four of them being the t ot Of thea tour the most moot noted Is e that In InI inthe the Louvre Paris It Is III In tame fame and favor only tl t Sistine I Madonna arid and photo photographs graphs of 01 It are numerous even enn In cur Gur GurI curland I land where apparently art Is 18 so 10 little cared cand for tor It sho shows the virgin of th world In the heavens her toot foot resting upon the crescent moon She Is cur ur rounded by radiant child angels ot of In Indescribable indescribable describable beauty In her uplifted face tace Is really the look or of one who has caught glimpses ot of things supernal and not to be told toldA tt ttA A r tact fact In with the d pl ot of Is that alt but on one nr f the graI rat of the tho vir I gin were painted within century The period began with Del I work the middle ot of the tho century Ily the middle ot of the sl do had been finished all the woride I treat great madonna paintings paintIng except that ot of Mu rub t p the death of Murillo occurred In 1682 and with him apparently the great groat madonna In art No Io modern attempts to the virgin r I mother anI holy chill child h have v come any anywhere anywhere where near the achievements of Gf th ag age muter masters who wh devoted them selves mostly to religIous art Not ot many modern artists have hae tried to f e plait plott this his great theme them Perhaps the noblest modern madonna Is that of the French artist painted I about a 3 generation ago l 1 Is II a large picture called Our th the An Angels gels geis It nt th the holy mother holding the child In her arms arm his back toward hr his arms outward at the tho eles so eo u as to tn torm forni a cross Child angels are around the h feet t of the mother Iry and the child have havo around heads the ancient halo broad round and heavy Tile The paintIng Ia In this having n by T Bruh ot of Clev l nd p Several others ot of the host best known ma madonna madonna donna by br nineteenth century artists ar arc photographed on this PO POA A famous one II the ot of the tit Grotto by Carl The mother sits upon th the ground the child upon her knees knee his face tace her his hll lips JIU close cloe to heri hera Mother ratheL anti child url tire gazing into each others eyes eyell This pIcture Is quite modern M n nimbus the with ferns growing about the spot eliot where the tho sits Is a 11 picture which h appeals PO to the woman with tho tha mother heart hert Is tar far more ot of the tonder In It tItan thon ot of the ascetic Some of tho modern give glo theIr m madonna mothers the tho faces ot of nuns on diet None of the old masters did that They knew better bolter Only modern painter depicts the holy mother and child IlS as eon consumptive um looking and from n a wasting away ot of vital force torce Certainly physical weaknesS ond u L disease Je are not naturally assocIated with the childhood or of on one lio cams that we might have life lito and have hav It more IMre There Is nothing suggestive ot of holiness or spiritual lip up uplift lift In more mere ph physIcal decay A striking example of the tho III oda Ideal Is seen In Inthe inthe the picture by nn an italian artist Dam flara limo Here the tho mother appears almost lIer head Is Ilk like that ot of an Arab Amb woman of at the present day A large tin ring about tier her head rep tho ho tradItional halo of light I a tt The Tho or of DelIverance rance by the taco face ot of n a young youn mod modera era arn Italian woman The ho Italy holy child sits ails upon her kneel iloth Hoth mother and child aru aro very beautiful except for tor the heavy nimbus which looks like n a hugo huge starched circular ruff about the moth NS head One more modern madonna is III a Gee Ger German man holy mother and child by Grosse Graue here the mother has hall a serious face hut but the whole picture suggests ts entire entirely ly healthy health tweet wholesome mother motherhood motherhood hood and babyhood Tho ho lu lusty ty plump II strong trong Infant for tor a whito ro rose from n a bust growing near I whilo the tho mother bends benda toward him the branch hearing bearing the rose The Tho Gro Grosso o Christ child Is moro tuoro ot of a sweet human b baby b than any ot of the other modern artists have I Painted j One rathor curious tact fact In connection with paintings and ot of the Christ Infant is III that he Is almost In Invariably tjI variably r represented with rg Ono One wonderS wh why Are children with curly hair more maIo beautiful than others I b t tH tHA A few tew years ago 00 Joseph GrAy Klich KIch I oil ell the artist of Indianapolis made the t tI I photograph of n a madonna I There arc aro some famous madonna j pictures picture Securing photographs ot of nit nil thee Mr Ir undertook thu tho task ot of combIning theta them and front thorn Item urn pro the tho worlds typical holy mother Tue Tho result Was sta profoundly interesting A draped head wat produced with a g face full tull of oC beauty wide wille large laro rather till tull but softly I rounded the tho radiant boring 9 p nance of the Id ideal 11 of tim tho race LL IAN |
