Word: blashfield
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large audience heard Mr. Blashfield lecture last evening in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory on "The City of the Renaissance, its pictorial conditions, and its relation to ours...
...Blashfield opened his lecture by an account of the characteristics of the city of Florence, in which the Renaissance most flourished. He described the customs and dress of its people and pictured its streets and buildings. He laid special stress on the description of the mural decoration of the city, illustrating freely with the stereopticon...
...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...
...lecture Mr. Blashfield showed a number of stereopticon views of typical pieces of Renaissance sculpture. The second lecture will be given tonight in the Jefferson Laboratory on "The City of the Renaissance...
Lecture. The City of Renaissance, its pictorial conditions, and its relation to ours. Mr. E. H. Blashfield. Boylston...