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Title: William De Morgan and his wife
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina)
Subjects: De Morgan, William Frend, 1839-1917 De Morgan, Mrs. (Evelyn) De Morgan family
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of radiant beauty, she is toying with her golden hair andgazing, enthralled by her own loveliness, in the mirror of Venus.Her robe is bright pink, while at her feet blossom white roses,and about her circle snow-white doves, dazzling in their purityagainst the background of sunlit landscape and azure sea.In the distance the fated towers of Ilium show, clear-cut againsta translucent sky. A companion picture of Cassandra repre-sents the prophetess, clad in blue with blood-red roses at her feet,her wild, mad beauty outlined against a background of Troyin flames. In The Valley of Shadows the Riddle of Life is depicted.A King, in a robe of gold, is standing in front of his crumblingPalace, while his foot still rests upon the neck of a lovely slave.Fame is wandering bhnd-fold down the Valley, dropping herfavours erratically as she moves. Opposite, into the blue andy^awning Caverns of Death, a victim, in the pride of his man-hood, is about to take the fatal plunge. In the centre, in draperies
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B z X THE REAL JANEY 311 of crimson and white, a nun-like figure is raising impassionedhands to the deaf heavens where, dim and intangible, therefloats the vision of an angelic form. The larg^ picture of Saint Christina giving away her FathersJewels to the Poor (12 ft. by 7I ft.) is an ambitious conception,the grouping and the composition of which is very striking.The pale, ethereal saint, clad in white with a cincture of red,is standing on the steps of her pagan fathers Venetian Palace.In accordance with the legend respecting her, she is distribut-ing to the poor jewels from the idols she has broken. Angelsin a long procession and in lovely draperies are descending thewide stairway behind her to aid her in despoiling the treasuresof the Palace. In the foreground the picturesque Itahan beggarsare thronging in their boats to the marble steps—the blind,the avaricious, the wretched—beautiful despite their misery,their drapery falling into graceful folds, greed or tragedy ex-pressed i

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