MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY
T. LEMAN HARE
LEIGHTON
1830-1897
PLATE I.—"AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT."—Rev. xx. 13. (Frontispiece)
(At the Tate Gallery, London)
This panel was intended to form part of a scheme of decoration for the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, and is interesting as an example of Leighton's methods of design. Both in subject and mode of treatment it departs markedly from the customary direction of his paintings, but its largeness of style and imaginative power give it an important place in the series of his works.
