Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The gentleman signing himself "W." in your issue of Monday seems to have forgotten, first, the fact already pointed out in your Saturday's issue that instructors and students meet on terms of intimacy at the Art Club, the Classical Club, the Conference Francaise, the Finance Club, the Historical Society, the Deutscher Verein and the Natural History Society; second, that nobody ever has or ever will do any voluntary act without a sufficient motive. "If that be treason, make the most...
...story of Hercules is but a transposition of an Assyrianmyth. From the earliest time to the decline of the Assyrian empire, the valley of the Euphrates was the centre of art; its influence can be traced in Italian tombs, Greek bas-reliefs, and the various works of art of Phoenecia, Egypt, and other countries of the East...
...Phoenician art felt strongly the influence of both Egypt and Assyria; we can trace the two types of art in the same bas-relief. It was a heterogenious art, in which every peculiarity was borrowed from the surrounding countries...
...direct evidence can be found that Assyrian art was affected by, or itself affected the art of the Elamities, so little is known of the works of this people. Most scholars are agreed, however, that these two peoples did effect each other, though they are, as yet, unable to trace any influence of the art of the one in that of the other...
...most striking influence of Assyrian as well as Egyptian art can be traced in the archaic sculpture and bas-reliefs of Greece. Greek vases have been found, the figures on which are known to have been copied directly from Egyptian monuments, and the famous Doric Column is but a development of a form common in Assyrian architecture. It was not in the form alone that foreign influence is traced in Greek art; many of the ideas one derived from the Assyrian and Egyptian mythology...