Word: artful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...John Fiske is to give a series of seven lectures, for the benefit of the Prospect Union, in the Fogg Art Museum on Monday afternoons at half past four, beginning April 4. These lectures will all be illustrated with stereopticon views and will be on the Western Campaigns of the Civil Wall, as were the four lectures delivered in Sanders Theatre, by Dr. Fiske in December, 1895. The dates and subjects follows...
...reading the "Martyrs" of Chateaubriand and the novels of Walter Scott that Augustin Thierry felt himself develop into an historian. His object was to establish peace between science and art, with scientific and artistic arrangement of material. He is endowed with an imagination which raises images, landscapes and people before the eyes of the reader. His histories where he describes events, paints scenes and outlines characters,- for instance, the "Conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands" and "Recits Merovingiens,"- are very close in style to novels or epic poems...
Romanticism brought into French literature fine sensibility and a feeling for art and for history. Its excesses and faults are due to the fact that this was a period of crisis. This was a crisis during which classic realism was developing into modern realism...
...fundamental principles of the Department differ to some extent from those of most architectural schools in this country, with the possible exception of Columbia, in laying stress primarily on the importance of an accurate and thorough knowledge of the history of art as an essential foundation for work in design, and with this end the Department has the great advantage of being closely allied to the Department of Fine Arts in Harvard College. In addition to the courses offered by the College on the history of art those in the Department occupy three years. The practical training upon which...
While it is recognized that Architecture is essentially a Fine Art to be studied as such, thorough knowledge of construction is not forgotten, and great stress is laid on continued practice...