[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER III 18/21
She herself was transfigured in the Dawn of Tomorrow, but the film-version of that play was merely a well mounted melodrama. Why do the people love Mary? Because of a certain aspect of her face in her highest mood.
Botticelli painted her portrait many centuries ago when by some necromancy she appeared to him in this phase of herself. There is in the Chicago Art Institute at the top of the stairs on the north wall a noble copy of a fresco by that painter, the copy by Mrs. MacMonnies.
It is very near the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
In the picture the muses sit enthroned.
The loveliest of them all is a startling replica of Mary. The people are hungry for this fine and spiritual thing that Botticelli painted in the faces of his muses and heavenly creatures.
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