DOI Heft:
No. 97 (April, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Hart, Delia A.: A spanish painter: Francisco Pradilla
DOI Artikel:Hendrix, Henriëtte: Norse mythology as illustrated by Antoon Molkenboer
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0210
Norse Mythology Illustrations
just about to place her child in its cradle, and the any form of great art. The true pioneer is never
men, while their wives and daughters toil, are iconoclastic in temper. He loves the greatness
settling themselves down for a sleep. of the past, but he knows that conventions grow
Invested with the poetry of mediaeval times is old and become worse than useless, and he feels,
the "idyll" entitled La Corte de Amor, which too, that something better and higher should be
gives an episode in Italian customs, particularised made to exist in their stead.
in the once popular Fete, in which, in those feudal It is, of course, a well-known fact that all true
days, the dames and knights, lords and masters pioneers are laughed at when they first make
took part. The scene is
very imposing with the
numerous figures, remark-
able for the diversity of
their stamp, costume and
expression.
Delia A. Hart.
NORSE MY-
THOLOGY
AS ILLUS-
TRATED BY AN-
TOON MOLKEN-
BOER. BY HENRI-
ETTE HENDRIX.
Who does not rejoice
when a man breaks away
from a worn-out tradition
in art and asserts his right
to use his own gifts without
fear of authority ? Some
artists, no doubt, have
chosen a new direction,
only to be scornful in their
attitude to old things; it is
not to them that we owe "ygdrasil, the tree of life" by antoon molkbnboer
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just about to place her child in its cradle, and the any form of great art. The true pioneer is never
men, while their wives and daughters toil, are iconoclastic in temper. He loves the greatness
settling themselves down for a sleep. of the past, but he knows that conventions grow
Invested with the poetry of mediaeval times is old and become worse than useless, and he feels,
the "idyll" entitled La Corte de Amor, which too, that something better and higher should be
gives an episode in Italian customs, particularised made to exist in their stead.
in the once popular Fete, in which, in those feudal It is, of course, a well-known fact that all true
days, the dames and knights, lords and masters pioneers are laughed at when they first make
took part. The scene is
very imposing with the
numerous figures, remark-
able for the diversity of
their stamp, costume and
expression.
Delia A. Hart.
NORSE MY-
THOLOGY
AS ILLUS-
TRATED BY AN-
TOON MOLKEN-
BOER. BY HENRI-
ETTE HENDRIX.
Who does not rejoice
when a man breaks away
from a worn-out tradition
in art and asserts his right
to use his own gifts without
fear of authority ? Some
artists, no doubt, have
chosen a new direction,
only to be scornful in their
attitude to old things; it is
not to them that we owe "ygdrasil, the tree of life" by antoon molkbnboer
181