Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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e marble pillar, the other, drooping at her side, justholds without holding, the spindle that has wounded her, while at her side is the basket ofwool that she was spinning when her drowsy eyelids began to fall. On the rod that ties thearches of the arcade, her hawks are perched asleep, on the ledge asleep, curled up and quitecontent to sleep forever, is her favorite cat, and on the parapet of the stairs, with his headunder his wing, the peacock sleeps with all the hundred eyes of his gorgeous tail. But, upthe stairs the prince at last is coming; in his hunters dress, with cap and feather, his hornslung about his neck, he tears the hindering thorns aside, and mounts the stairs— More close and close his footsteps wind;The magic music as his heartBeats quick and quicker, till he findThe quiet chamber far apart. t92 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. His siDirit flutters like a lark,He stoops,—to kiss lier—on his knee, * Love, if thy tresses be so dark. How dark those hidden eyes must be!
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FRITHiOF AND INGEBORG. FROM THE PAINTING BY RUDOLPH BENDEMANN. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 193 Another tale of fairy-land is illustrated by Rudolph Bendemann, the son of thatEdouard Bendemann already spoken of in these pages. This artist, whose full name is RudolfChristian Eugen, was born in Dresden in 1851, and studied first at Diisseldorf and later withhis father, under whose direction he was still working when he painted the scene from theFrithiofs Saga, which we engrave. At the same period he painted other i^ictures that gavehim reputation, and took part in the decoration of the New Museum in Beilin, where he exe-cuted, in encaustic, some of the groujps of the Geniuses who preside over the different arts.The scene from the Frithiofs Saga is treated with much directness, grace, and poetic sympathy,characteristics which the young artist has inherited from his father, whose Jews in Cap-tivity and Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem are remarkably free from the grandiosemannerisms of

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