DOI issue:
[No. 320 (November 1919)]
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21359#0087
STUDIO-TALK
them who were able to continue their
work, and prominent among these is the
sculptor Godefroid Devreese, of this
•city. Circumstances compelled him, so
to speak, to specialize in medal work.
Examples of his pre-war productions have
been reproduced in The Studio from time
to time, and his recent work shows that he
has lost none of his characteristic qualities.
Under the title “ Souvenir de Guerre,”
.an exhibition has lately been held at the
Palais d'Egmont (formerly known as the
Palais d'Arenberg) in Brussels, which
comprised numerous sections of all kinds,
from the fine arts to the debris of military
equipment. In the hall, which at one
time formed the famous Arenberg Gallery,
there was displayed the collection of
•etchings, dry-points, aquatints, woodcuts,
and lithographs presented to Belgium by
Mr. Frank Brangwyn, R.A. To readers of
The Studio, in the successive volumes of
which the career of the master may be fol-
lowed, it is quite unnecessary to extol Mr.
Brangwyn's achievements in their many
and varied aspects. All through the war
lie manifested his ardent sympathy with
Belgium, and particularly with those of her
artists who took refuge in England. To
M. Paul Lambotte, who during the war
carried on his functions as Director of
Fine Arts in London, he one day an-
nounced his intention of offering to
Belgium a collection similar to that which
he had offered to France. The exhibition
u THREE FRIENDS OF BELGIUM” (MR. BRAND
WHITLOCK, PRESIDENT WILSON, AND MR.
HOOVER). MEDALS BY GODEFROID DEVREESE
of this magnificent gift in the old Arenberg
Gallery has been the event of the season.
F. K.
MADRID.—On entering the church of
San Antonio de la Florida in the
environs of Madrid, the visitor is at once
conscious of that indefinable feeling which
stirs our being to its core in the presence of
true beauty. As far as its essentials are
concerned the church is poorly equipped
and bare, but the upper part is decorated
with some most beautiful frescoes by
Goya, which, however, have unfortunately
suffered considerable change and deprecia-
tion owing to the artificial light and the
smoke of incense. 0000
These frescoes were executed to the
order of Charles IV and in honour of
Saint Anthony; they consist of a ceiling
in the cupola, in which is depicted the
martyrdom and resurrection of the saint,
and several side panels in which the artist
has contented himself with painting angels
of different sizes and in various attitudes.
Goya executed these frescoes when he was
in the plenitude of his artistic achievement.
They are very much superior to those
which he painted for the cathedral of
Toledo and for Notre Dame del Pilar at
Saragossa, and among his religious works
only the Communion de St. Joseph de
Colasanz which decorates the chapel of the
Ecoles Pies at Madrid may be placed on the
same level with these San Antonio frescoes.
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them who were able to continue their
work, and prominent among these is the
sculptor Godefroid Devreese, of this
•city. Circumstances compelled him, so
to speak, to specialize in medal work.
Examples of his pre-war productions have
been reproduced in The Studio from time
to time, and his recent work shows that he
has lost none of his characteristic qualities.
Under the title “ Souvenir de Guerre,”
.an exhibition has lately been held at the
Palais d'Egmont (formerly known as the
Palais d'Arenberg) in Brussels, which
comprised numerous sections of all kinds,
from the fine arts to the debris of military
equipment. In the hall, which at one
time formed the famous Arenberg Gallery,
there was displayed the collection of
•etchings, dry-points, aquatints, woodcuts,
and lithographs presented to Belgium by
Mr. Frank Brangwyn, R.A. To readers of
The Studio, in the successive volumes of
which the career of the master may be fol-
lowed, it is quite unnecessary to extol Mr.
Brangwyn's achievements in their many
and varied aspects. All through the war
lie manifested his ardent sympathy with
Belgium, and particularly with those of her
artists who took refuge in England. To
M. Paul Lambotte, who during the war
carried on his functions as Director of
Fine Arts in London, he one day an-
nounced his intention of offering to
Belgium a collection similar to that which
he had offered to France. The exhibition
u THREE FRIENDS OF BELGIUM” (MR. BRAND
WHITLOCK, PRESIDENT WILSON, AND MR.
HOOVER). MEDALS BY GODEFROID DEVREESE
of this magnificent gift in the old Arenberg
Gallery has been the event of the season.
F. K.
MADRID.—On entering the church of
San Antonio de la Florida in the
environs of Madrid, the visitor is at once
conscious of that indefinable feeling which
stirs our being to its core in the presence of
true beauty. As far as its essentials are
concerned the church is poorly equipped
and bare, but the upper part is decorated
with some most beautiful frescoes by
Goya, which, however, have unfortunately
suffered considerable change and deprecia-
tion owing to the artificial light and the
smoke of incense. 0000
These frescoes were executed to the
order of Charles IV and in honour of
Saint Anthony; they consist of a ceiling
in the cupola, in which is depicted the
martyrdom and resurrection of the saint,
and several side panels in which the artist
has contented himself with painting angels
of different sizes and in various attitudes.
Goya executed these frescoes when he was
in the plenitude of his artistic achievement.
They are very much superior to those
which he painted for the cathedral of
Toledo and for Notre Dame del Pilar at
Saragossa, and among his religious works
only the Communion de St. Joseph de
Colasanz which decorates the chapel of the
Ecoles Pies at Madrid may be placed on the
same level with these San Antonio frescoes.
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