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Margaret Gibbs is a classic example of the Puritan limner's art. Typically, seven-year-old Margaret meets the eye not like a real girl in a real world but like a dream of one. Her body looks no thicker than a dress on a clothes hanger. The ringleted hair, silver necklace, lace, drawstrings and bows are presented distinctly. But it would be hard to guess how Margaret looked from the side. Her square-toed shoes scarcely touch the floor, and though the floor is seen from above, Margaret stands at eye level. Nevertheless, the portrait is superb...
...17th century the Puritan movement brought a wave of millennialism, and with it the notion that for Christ's second coming the Jews must be liberated and perhaps even converted. Cromwell, impressed less with the Messianic than the political and economic advantages of taking the Jews back, allowed them to resettle and establish a synagogue (though no formal decree was ever issued...
...theme of this moving book. The button-eyes of her shoes, a cracked lithograph of the Sacred Heart, and her aunt's photograph are the familiars of her lonely misery. These possessions symbolize the three elements which transport Judith Hearne to her doom-genteel poverty, a puritan concept of Catholicism, and the aunt who had exploited pity to keep her in domestic servitude...
Enter first puritan: Harry Summers, an American major, who returns to liberated Rome after World War II as an art expert for UNESCO. Enter second puritan: his wife Jane, a Roman Catholic but, as she comes from Philadelphia, a puritan nonetheless. These two kill their principles to make a Roman honeymoon-not, however, with each other. The trouble with Harry is that he can only really enjoy himself if he knows he's being wicked. In Paris, he tries "laughing Simone from Marseille, a specialist in net underwear . . . and Mamai and Lisa and Danielle and Monique." His real fate...
American taste regarding the great Flemish master has favored graphic works in European museums. The Puritan strain seems to be repelled by the fleshiness of the great Baroque paintings as well as by their Counter-Reformation fervor and ostentation. Although they often lack the immediate brilliance and awesome sweep of the larger paintings, the smaller, more intimate works have their own merits. They are clear and concentrated and, most important, Rubens' own work. The better-known canvases were often almost wholly executed by helpers under Rubens' direction. These paintings were the work of the master both in plan...