The eyes of the worshipper should no longer have a mere stock or stone to contemplate: his imagination should be helped by the dramatic presentation of the scenes of sacred history, and his devotion be quickened by lively images of the passion of our Lord.

Spirit should converse with spirit, through no veil of symbol, but through the transparent medium of art, itself instinct with inbreathed life and radiant with ideal beauty.

The body and the soul, moreover, should be reconciled; and God's likeness should be once more acknowledged in the features and the limbs of man.

Such was the promise of art; and this promise was in a great measure fulfilled by the painting of the fourteenth century.

Men ceased to worship their God in the holiness of ugliness; and a great city called its street Glad on the birthday-festival of the first picture investing religious emotion with aesthetic charm.