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...Weyden [April 5] you have a reproduction of a portrait with the title "St. Ivo of Chartres." There seems to be some confusion here. France's Ivo (Yves de Chartres) wrote collections of canon law, but it was St. Yves of Brittany who was the patron saint of lawyers and is renowned for his defense of the poor and for free legal aid to the peasants. He was Yves (sometimes Ives or, in Latin, Ivo) Helory, who was born in 1253 on his father's manor, Ker-martin. He was canonized...
...owes much to literary symbolism. Balthazar is a vessel for emotional associations that multiply as the film proceeds. He is a symbol of the promises of Jacques and the physical love of Gerard. He is a sexual substitute. He is the personification of stoicism. He is variously called a saint, a genius and an anachronism. By the end of the film, he is an embodiment of the whole complex of dramatic relationships...
...original purpose of the National Gallery picture remains a mystery. Is it a portrait, or is it the image of a saint posed for by a saintly looking model? Very probably it possessed a companion picture or pictures, and all the problems relating to it could be resolved if these should come to light...
...majesty flashes from Chamberlain's brow as he rebukes the usurping Bolingbroke: "The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord." In his final scene, as piteously alone as he was once in clamorous pomp attended, bereft of crown and wife, Richard seems a saint redeemed...