Giotto And His Works in Padua

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Giotto And His Works in Padua
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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Thefigure of Joachim is singularly beautiful in its pensiveness and slowmotion; and the ignobleness of the herdsmen's figures is curiouslymarked in opposition to the dignity of their master.
    * * * * * III.
THE ANGEL APPEARS TO ANNA.
"Afterwards the angel appeared to Anna his wife, saying, 'Fear not, neither think that which you see is a spirit. For I am that angel whohath offered up your prayers and alms before God, and am now sent totell you that a daughter will be born unto you.... Arise,
... therefore, and go up to Jerusalem; and when you shall come to that which iscalled the Golden Gate (because it is gilt with gold), as a sign ofwhat I have told you, you shall meet your husband, for whose safetyyou have been so much concerned. '" (Gospel of St. Mary, chap. Iii. 1-7. ) The accounts in the Protevangelion and in the Harleian MS. Are muchexpanded: relating how Anna feared her husband was dead, he havingbeen absent from her five months; and how Judith, her maid, tauntedher with her childlessness; and how, going then into her garden, shesaw a sparrow's nest, full of young, upon a laurel-tree, and mourningwithin herself, said, "I am not comparable to the very beasts of theearth, for even they are fruitful before thee, O Lord....

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