Word: colored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more recent additions to the Ware collection of Blaschka glass flowers are now in place in the cases, and serve to indicate even more fully than the previous consignments, the range of artistic skill possessed by the Blaschkas. In the management of color the artists have surmounted difficulties which might have been regarded as insuperable, but in all instances the various tints, hues and shades are perfect copies of the originals, and to this is added the representation of texture...
...meeting of the students of the University of Chicago last week, scarlet was adopted as the university color...
...play throughout has considerable local color, great enthusiasm being aroused by the appearance on the stage of "Billy" the Harvard postman...
...very little wine be poured into a cupful of water it will at first penetrate in irregular streaks without mingling, but will gradually give a color and flavor to the whole. This was really the case with the Norman-French brought into England at the time of the Conquest. At first the French and the Anglo-Saxon existed side by side, the one as language of the Court, the higher clergy and the nobles; the other of the people. Gradually as the connexion with Frence grew weaker and at last ceased altogether, and the realm of England began to develop...
Tintoretto was the most rapid worker of the four, and it is not to be expected that all his work should be up to his highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about...