Marcel Proust (1871-1922): Art in Swann's Way, Part 3: Place-Names: The Name
Swann's Way, Part 3: Place-Names: The Name
Fra Angelico (1395-1455), Crucifixion (ca. 1420).
Image source: Wikiart.org[1]. Public domain in the USA (pre-1923).
" ... gave Florence a dazzling golden background, like those in Fra Angelico’s pictures."
Giotto (1266-1337), Baptism of Christ from Scenes from the Life of Christ (ca. 1305).
Image source: Wikiart.org[2]. Public domain in the USA (pre-1923).
" ... like some of Giotto’s paintings themselves which shew us at two separate moments the same person engaged in different actions, here lying on his bed, there just about to mount his horse ... "
Giotto (1266-1337), Christ Washing the Feet of His Disciples from Scenes from the Life of Christ (ca. 1305).
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" ... like some of Giotto’s paintings themselves which shew us at two separate moments the same person engaged in different actions, here lying on his bed, there just about to mount his horse ... "
Giotto (1266-1337), Lamentation over the Body of Christ from Scenes from the Life of Christ (ca. 1305).
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" ... like some of Giotto’s paintings themselves which shew us at two separate moments the same person engaged in different actions, here lying on his bed, there just about to mount his horse ... "
Giotto (1266-1337), Expulsion of the Money Changers from Scenes from the Life of Christ (ca. 1305).
Image source: Wikiart.org[5]. Public domain in the USA (pre-1923).
" ... like some of Giotto’s paintings themselves which shew us at two separate moments the same person engaged in different actions, here lying on his bed, there just about to mount his horse ... "
Giorgione (1478-1510), Young Man with an Arrow (ca. 1505).
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"When I repeated to myself, giving thus a special value to what I was going to see, that Venice was the “School of Giorgione, the home of Titian, the most complete museum of the domestic architecture of the Middle Ages,” I felt happy indeed."
Titian (ca. 1488/1490-1576), Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-1523).
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"When I repeated to myself, giving thus a special value to what I was going to see, that Venice was the “School of Giorgione, the home of Titian, the most complete museum of the domestic architecture of the Middle Ages,” I felt happy indeed."
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Hagar and the Angel (ca. 1660).
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" ... like the cloud that, curling over one of Poussin’s gardens, reflects minutely, like a cloud in the opera, teeming with chariots and horses, some apparition of the life of the gods ... "
Constantin Guys (1802-1892). Dandies in the Park (date unknown).
Image source: Wikiart.org[6]. Public domain in the USA (pre-1923).
" ... borne along by the flight of a pair of fiery horses, slender and shapely as one sees them in the drawings of Constantin Guys ... "
Michelangelo (1475-1564), The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (1508-1512): Creation of the Sun and the Moon.
Image source: Wikiart.org[7]. Public domain in the USA (pre-1923).
" ... in the white enamel of the globes of mistletoe that were scattered all the way up to the topmost branches of the poplars, rounded as are the sun and moon in Michelangelo’s ‘Creation.’"