Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opening article is "A New Light on the Chinese" with fascinating illustrations from paintings and drawings by the artist, Theodore Wares. Miss Mary E. Wilkins contributes her first attempt at play-writing, entitled "Giles Corey, Yeoman." Theodore Child, the Art-Critic, whose death was recently reported, has a paper on "Some Types of the Virgin." illustrated from paintings by the great masters, including a picture by Sandro Botticelli, which alone is cause enough for the existence of the Pre-Raphaelite School...
SCRIBNER'SThe Messrs. Scribners have accepted a plan which the Cosmopolitan attempted last year; that of publishing a colored frontispiece. It must be acknowledged that the success of the plan in the present instance is beyond question. And this attractive beginning opens a number devoted extensively to art. There are no less than four articles on art-work of one sort and another. The leading contribution is on "The Moral Painting in the Pantheon and Hotel de Ville of Paris" by Will H. Low. It is richly illustrated from the cartoons of the leading French painters...
...last art-article is Mr. Boyesen's "Norwegian Painters." The rest of the number is filled with fiction chiefly, notable in which is Mr. Hibbard's "Miss Latymnr...
THOSE who are interested in the further adornment of the yard will be pleased to observe the action taken by the President and Fellows regarding the Fogg Fine Arts building. It would indeed appear the wiser course of action to erect it immediately rather than wait for further be quests, and this not so much from unselfulness as for the special need existing for a Museum of Fine Arts in the University and beautiful surroundings for the art student. We are apt to place stress upon convenience rather than upon esthetic considerations in our buildings; but one need only recall...
Spain was early romanized, and so obtained a place among the Romance nations. Arab civilization had little influence on the type of Spanish civilization; though its proximity undoubtedly increased the body of intellectual materials available for the latter. The reconquest was slow. Under these conditions art was slow to start. Hence Spain was not one of the poetically fecund nations of the Middle Ages. The earliest literature we have in the vulgar Spanish tongue belongs to the end of the 12th century, - a century later than the earliest French literature of moment. In the very earliest monument of Spanish, poetry...