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THE TRIANGLES
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faces, draperies, and veils being finished with
the utmost delicacy.1 In pale harmonious
colours, dim reds and blues, faint greens
and greys, the mysterious beings soar above
us on the time-worn vaulting, and as we
look, we seem to hear the words of a
Scandinavian bard-
“Three things diminish day by day,
Hatred, injustice, ignorance.
Three things strengthen day by day,
Love, science, justice.
Three things continually diminish,
Darkness, error, Death.
Three things continually grow,
Light, truth, life.”
Michel Angelo has further introduced at
each corner of the vault, in a large triangular
frame, a leading event in the history of the
Israelites, showing God’s protection of His
chosen people. On the left side of the door
we have David slaying Goliath. It is
interesting to contrast this representation of
David with the famous statue which had
1 Large-sized photographs show that the figures are
modelled with loose, easy line-work, quite startling in the
power and knowledge of form it reveals.—C. J. Herringham,
“ Cennino Cennini,” p, 219,
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faces, draperies, and veils being finished with
the utmost delicacy.1 In pale harmonious
colours, dim reds and blues, faint greens
and greys, the mysterious beings soar above
us on the time-worn vaulting, and as we
look, we seem to hear the words of a
Scandinavian bard-
“Three things diminish day by day,
Hatred, injustice, ignorance.
Three things strengthen day by day,
Love, science, justice.
Three things continually diminish,
Darkness, error, Death.
Three things continually grow,
Light, truth, life.”
Michel Angelo has further introduced at
each corner of the vault, in a large triangular
frame, a leading event in the history of the
Israelites, showing God’s protection of His
chosen people. On the left side of the door
we have David slaying Goliath. It is
interesting to contrast this representation of
David with the famous statue which had
1 Large-sized photographs show that the figures are
modelled with loose, easy line-work, quite startling in the
power and knowledge of form it reveals.—C. J. Herringham,
“ Cennino Cennini,” p, 219,