What meant the fathers by establishing this perfectly living institution before the church,this institution which needs no repairing nor repainting, which is continually enlarged and repaired by its growth?

Yet if the vessel were really one of mystery, as it seemed to be, its owner would no doubt go across to some quiet anchorage on the Algerian coast out of the track of the vessels, and calmly proceed to repaint, rename and disguise his craft so that it would not be recognized in Marseilles, Naples, Smyrna, or any of the ports where private yachts habitually call.

"They would repaint and alter her appearance.

And she made him repaint for her the high lights of an episode of Mark King making a name for himself and a fortune at the same time in the Klondike country.

I'll repaint the whole wall for you free of charge.

It wanted repainting, and I think it very likely that it was a strain of that boyishness which I hope survives in us all, and one of whose quaint fancies is an envy of house-painters, so happy all day with paint-pot and brush and great smooth boards to dab and smooth, that decided him to do the job himself.

The "Leda" of Leonardo, repainted from motives of prudery by the great-grandfather of Louis-Philippe, was bought at the sale of that ex-king's pictures in Paris, in 1849, for thirty dollars, restored to its primitive condition, and sold, we are informed, for one hundred thousand francs.

As bad, however, as is this wanton injury, that of repainting is greater.

In Germany the ruler is the artist, always painting the happy German like a portrait; in France the Frenchman is the artist, always painting and repainting France like a house.

He had had difficulty with her lips, painting and repainting them.

"I mean," he explained eagerly, "that I want to repaint your portrait.

The announcement in the house that the artist was to repaint Mrs. Taine's picture, provoked characteristic comment.

And he knew that the repainting of that false portrait of Mrs. Taine, with all that it would cost him, was his first offering to that love.

His brain worked with that clearness and precision which he had known while repainting Mrs. Taine's portrait.

I remember when you wanted to repaint it, you said you would put on the canvas just what you thought of me; have you?

It may have been that the English mine-owners thought they could earn better profits under the British flag than under the rule of Mr. Kruger, though I am inclined to believe that even in their case their incentive was chiefly a patriotic desire to repaint in red that part of the map in which they carried on their business.

The credit of invention must indubitably rest with Giorgione, but the damage which the picture has sustained through neglect and repainting in years gone by, renders certainty of discrimination between the two hands a matter of impossibility.

The repainted condition of "The Judgment of Solomon" has led some good judges to pronounce it a copy.

The artistic effect is further enhanced by the relief of exquisite flesh tones against the rich crimson drapery, and although the atmospheric glow has been sadly destroyed by abrasion and repainting, we may still feel something of the magic charm which Giorgione knew so well how to impart.

If the repaint covering the surface were removed we should, I think, find that it is an early work by Titian."

It is, therefore, peculiarly unfortunate that the two side figures in this wonderful group are so rubbed and repainted as almost to defy certainty of judgment.

In my opinion, it would be far wiser to withhold definite judgment in a case where a picture has been so entirely repainted.

If it were not that Morelli, Mr. Berenson and others have recognised in the "Portrait of a Gentleman," in the Querini-Stampalia Gallery in Venice, the same hand as in the National Gallery picture, one might well hesitate to claim it for Giorgione, so repainted is its present condition.

This unfinished portrait is, despite its repaint, extraordinarily attractive, the rich browns and reds forming a colour-scheme of great beauty.

The actual Lübeck is still to the eye the Lübeck of the Middle Ages, the old capital of the Hanseatic League.[B] All the drama of modern life is enacted in the old theater whose scenery remains the same, its drop-scene even not repainted.