DOI Heft:
No. 67 (October 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0076
Studio-Talk
power of characterisation. The faces have been La Dame d'Elche in the Revue Encyclopedique.
studied with rare sincerity, while the entire canvas " It is," he says, " the bust of a young woman, with
reveals great force of imagination. One cannot her hair, dressed in the style of a heathen goddess,
conceive anything more delightful than this quiet strangely adorned with a sort of mitre covered by a
Italian cloister, within whose recesses the three purple veil, drawn together over the forehead and
falling in straight folds on the neck. She
is bedecked with curious jewels, which
add to the strangeness of the face. The
costume consists of an under garment
fitting closely to the body and sustained
by a fibula, a draped robe, and a mantle
hanging in regular folds from the shoul-
ders. A large and curious necklace,
formed of three rows of pearls, whence
depend a number of little amphora and
bags of leather or metal, covers her breast.
The oval face, with its straight nose and
by wortmann slightly pinched nostrils, the fine lines of
the somewhat hollow cheeks, the enigma-
tic heavy-lidded eyes, the purple mouth,
friars pass their peaceful days, with faith and designed with a precision and a delicate natu-
resignation written on their faces. ralism Peculiar aImost exclusively to antique art;
_ the traces of varied colouring which still further
The Louvre collection has lately been enriched accentuate the intensely lifelike character of the
by a new masterpiece. M. Noel Bardac has pre- face-all this produces a profound and mysterious
sented to the Section of Oriental- Antiquities a impression, and discloses a phase of antiquity un-
supremely artistic female bust. It was found in the known or, at best, merely suspected by our
town of Elche, in Spain. M. Pierre Paris, a pro- dreamers and our poets." G. M.
medal (obverse and reverse)
medal (obverse and reverse)
by bart van hove
fessor at the University of Bordeaux, who was sent T T OLLAND.—The medals, illustrations
mission to Spain, had the good luck to reach I_I of which accompany these notes:
IT
Elche a few days after the discovery of this marvel- | J were struck in commemoration of
lous production, and so tactfully, so promptly did he £ | the recent coronation of her Majesty
act that he succeeded in securing it for the Louvre. the Queen of the Netherlands. The
M. Leonce Be'ne'dite, Director of the Luxembourg large round one, which was designed by Bart van
Museum, has written an admirable description of Hove, has on the obverse a portrait of the Queen,
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power of characterisation. The faces have been La Dame d'Elche in the Revue Encyclopedique.
studied with rare sincerity, while the entire canvas " It is," he says, " the bust of a young woman, with
reveals great force of imagination. One cannot her hair, dressed in the style of a heathen goddess,
conceive anything more delightful than this quiet strangely adorned with a sort of mitre covered by a
Italian cloister, within whose recesses the three purple veil, drawn together over the forehead and
falling in straight folds on the neck. She
is bedecked with curious jewels, which
add to the strangeness of the face. The
costume consists of an under garment
fitting closely to the body and sustained
by a fibula, a draped robe, and a mantle
hanging in regular folds from the shoul-
ders. A large and curious necklace,
formed of three rows of pearls, whence
depend a number of little amphora and
bags of leather or metal, covers her breast.
The oval face, with its straight nose and
by wortmann slightly pinched nostrils, the fine lines of
the somewhat hollow cheeks, the enigma-
tic heavy-lidded eyes, the purple mouth,
friars pass their peaceful days, with faith and designed with a precision and a delicate natu-
resignation written on their faces. ralism Peculiar aImost exclusively to antique art;
_ the traces of varied colouring which still further
The Louvre collection has lately been enriched accentuate the intensely lifelike character of the
by a new masterpiece. M. Noel Bardac has pre- face-all this produces a profound and mysterious
sented to the Section of Oriental- Antiquities a impression, and discloses a phase of antiquity un-
supremely artistic female bust. It was found in the known or, at best, merely suspected by our
town of Elche, in Spain. M. Pierre Paris, a pro- dreamers and our poets." G. M.
medal (obverse and reverse)
medal (obverse and reverse)
by bart van hove
fessor at the University of Bordeaux, who was sent T T OLLAND.—The medals, illustrations
mission to Spain, had the good luck to reach I_I of which accompany these notes:
IT
Elche a few days after the discovery of this marvel- | J were struck in commemoration of
lous production, and so tactfully, so promptly did he £ | the recent coronation of her Majesty
act that he succeeded in securing it for the Louvre. the Queen of the Netherlands. The
M. Leonce Be'ne'dite, Director of the Luxembourg large round one, which was designed by Bart van
Museum, has written an admirable description of Hove, has on the obverse a portrait of the Queen,
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