There were mazes such as the one at Hampton Court, in most old fashioned gardens. The lover behind has lost his way and is listening to his rival's success.
Brenghel [sic] was a Dutch artist, A.D.1510-1570. The gardens of the people, and the artist's manner of painting them are equally stiff, prim, and formal.
"The feeding of the rivers and the purifying of the plains the least of the services appointed to the hills. To fill the thirst of the human heart for the beatuy of God's working to startle its lethargy with the deep and pure agitation of astonishment, --are their higher missions" Ruskin.
Tyndale lived for a time with a London alderman, and studied most part of the day at his book, and "would eat but sodden meat by his good will, and drink but small single beer." The book at which he studied was the Bible. But the translation of the Bible into English was not to be done in England, and to avoid persecution Tyndale had to fly to Germany. He finished teh New Testament there in 1525, and in 1526 six thousand copies of the New Testament in English were sent over to England.
A picture painted when life was so simple that a representation of a well-known home helped men understand God. The great masters painted the Virgin and child in likeness of the people they knew; in their eyes every home had the possibility of the highest.
A picure of what our children's playgrounds ought to be. "The Children are blissful, just in the degree that they are natural; and the fairyland she creates for you is not beyond the sky nor beneath the sea, but nigh you, even at your doors. She does shew you how to see it, and how to cherish." --Ruskin.
Flowers bloom where men have fought and bled. ("I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as were some buried Caesar bled.") But to the mourner there is still sorrow in the air.
The friend of the Stuarts rose against the Georges in 1745. This portrait shows how, to some, it was a hard duty to fight against fellow-countrymen, and how full of danger the fight was.
An ironmonger's, a carpet dealers's, and a drapers' shop in a Cairo street. Business men there live for other things than money-making; they busy themselves with living, as well as with obtaining a livelihood. They enjoy the beautiful things they sell, and somtimes take, as well as pursue, repose.
Cuyp, who was a brewer by trade, was a Dutch artist (A.D. 1605-1691), especially good at painting sunlight, "the best that Holland's sun can show." There are several of his pictures in the National Gallery.