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Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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t in the young artist. His nextachievement was the painting of the Martyr Julia, a supposed victim of the Roman persecu-tion, who was shown in Ms picture nailed to the cross, while a young Eoman, passing by,takes the rose-wreath from his head and lays it at her feet. This picture of pure sensation,made, of course, a great impression in Munich—the hot-bed of this vicious art, where thegreatest extravagances are sure of the warmest welcome, and Max was not the man to hide histalent under a bushel. One scene of melodrama followed another: The Last Token, a girlin the arena stooping to pick up a rose flung to her by her lover, while round her— Eampd and roard the lions, with horrid, laughing jaws;The Melancholy Nun brooding over joys fled or untasted; the inevitable Gretchenf 2i6 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. Juliet in her feigned deatli-sleep, with, oh, most touching symbol of a womans abandon-ment to grief—-a hair-pin, lying conspicuous on the coverlid! Then, the Lions Bride, after
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THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. FROM THE PICTURE BY GABRIEL MAX. von Chamlssos j)oem; then Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, Looking at a Dead Child; the Child-murderess, and Christ Bringing-back to Life the Daugher of Jairus, where, that ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. -217 no doubting Tliomas may question her death, the artist has, with exquisite taste, placed acorrupting liy already fastened upon her arm !

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