Word: artful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum, Professor Moore gave the first of his series of illustrated lectures on the Fine Arts of the Renaissance. The one last evening was partly introductory to the whole course, but dealt more particularly with the architecture of the Italian Renaissance...
...opening his lecture, Professor Moore pointed out the difference between the motives that actuated the art of the Middle ages and those actuating the art of the Renaissance. Religious faith was the dominant note and the inspiration of mediaeval art; on the other hand, the art of the Renaissance reflected the freedom of though and the tendency to classicism of the Renaissance itself. Its spirit was essentially mundane and finally became, in imitation of the Greeks, a mere effort to depict physical beauty. The Italian antists, however, took the later Graeco-Roman period for a model rather than the classic...
...Prelude to Poetry, the English Poets in the Defense and Praise of their own Art...
Professor Moore will give the first of his series of evening exhibitions of lantern slides illustrating the Fine Arts of the Renaissance in the Fogg Art Museum tonight, beginning at eight o'clock. These exhibitions will appear on successive evenings up to and including...
...Prelude to Poetry, the English Poets in the Defense and Praise of their own Art...