CARITAS

 CARITAS

CARITAS- MEANS CHARITY. THE MASTERPIECE OF THE AMERICAN PAINTER ABBOT THAYER. 1912 JANUARY- RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE USA- ART STUDIES OF JANUARY MONTH IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

To illustrate by our picture- Charity is embodiment of that great universal love, which cannot exhaust itself on family and friends, but which embraces the world in its wide span.We feel "as she spreads perfect arms upon the air" that there is no limit to wideness of the love she represents.

Three mastgerpieces of Thayer are: "Caritas", "The Virgin", and "The Madonna Enthroned". 

"Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself. is not puffed...beareth all things, up all things believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth." This is truly a wonderful and inspiring picture with which to express that love which is, after all truly the greatest thing in the world.