DOI issue:
[No. 320 (November 1919)]
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21359#0089
STUDIO-TALK
FRESCO PAINTING IN THE CHURCH
OF SAN ANTONIO DE LA FLORIDA
BY FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES
life. Among the figures in the composition
the saint alone with his face emaciated by
suffering, his poor robe of coarse cloth, and
the martyr's palm in his hand, is in true
keeping with the subject. All the others
are treated with the greatest familiarity.
Side by side with richly attired majas, who
laugh and talk in the same careless manner
as in the Pradera, one sees repulsive and
dirty women with emaciated faces, and
men who resemble in appearance the
bandits of Lesage. Gutter children play
behind the bars of the balustrade, others
seated astride the rail laugh and grimace.
All these types make a picture of most vivid
and intense sincerity, but one misses entirely
any religious feeling. 000
In the same way the angels of the side
panels have by no means the air of celestial
beings. The little ones with their delicate
and rounded limbs would make delightful
cupids in a profane allegory, and the larger
ones with their hair coquettishly arranged,
their seductive decolletage and their lovely
forms revealed through their soft draperies,
are nothing more than exquisite women to
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FRESCO PAINTING IN THE CHURCH
OF SAN ANTONIO DE LA FLORIDA
BY FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES
life. Among the figures in the composition
the saint alone with his face emaciated by
suffering, his poor robe of coarse cloth, and
the martyr's palm in his hand, is in true
keeping with the subject. All the others
are treated with the greatest familiarity.
Side by side with richly attired majas, who
laugh and talk in the same careless manner
as in the Pradera, one sees repulsive and
dirty women with emaciated faces, and
men who resemble in appearance the
bandits of Lesage. Gutter children play
behind the bars of the balustrade, others
seated astride the rail laugh and grimace.
All these types make a picture of most vivid
and intense sincerity, but one misses entirely
any religious feeling. 000
In the same way the angels of the side
panels have by no means the air of celestial
beings. The little ones with their delicate
and rounded limbs would make delightful
cupids in a profane allegory, and the larger
ones with their hair coquettishly arranged,
their seductive decolletage and their lovely
forms revealed through their soft draperies,
are nothing more than exquisite women to
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