Word: arts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Giotto, one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance, was the beginner of dramatic art. The great strength of his art was his naive suppression of all unnecessary detail and his extreme simplicity of selection. His greatest work is the decoration of the Franciscan Church of Assizi, in Florence...
...physical dificulties of mural decorative painting, he said, make it belong to a wholly separate style of art. Where the painting is first put on canvas, these difficulties are in great part removed. This has caused one of the great differences in the nature of mural painting on canvas and of that in situ. In the former the character of the ceiling paintings is the finer, in the latter that of the panel paintings...
...Blashfield expressed himself as opposed to the notion that we must have a strictly American art. Though an American may in his study abroad take foreign landscapes for his subjects, he is still American in his art. Any national art is the sum total of what the natives may assimilate by their talent. So one will remain an American in his art. No one has any style of art entirely to himself. Raphael and Michael Angelo, though giants of their time, were not alone. They borrowed from the great masters before them. If one is only a link...
...Italy was wrapped up in art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Everybody, workmen as well as noblemen, took an interest in the beauty of the cities and in the beauty of every little thing. It was part of their daily life...
...thing the Italy of the Renaissance stood far in advance of us, in that with them art was principally seen in the decoration of public buildings, while with us nearly all our art is in private houses...