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...silk of the Tang Dynasty, which is thought to have come originally from the great Tun Huang Library, long sealed and low removed for the most part to London, Paris, and Calcutta Most of the object secured by the second expedition have not arrived. They include a few fresco fragments of different periods and an early wooden statue of historical importance...
...There is often an epigramatical deftness of expression which is like a delicate fresco. I regret to say that I have not read nearly so much of Miss Lowell's poetry as I might wish to, but in my small acquaintance with it I have found much that is delightful. And it is for the sake of this much that we can overlook the even more which is relatively flat and unpointed. Miss Lowell in the course of her writing has shot a great many shafts, many of which have gone astray, but those that have found the mark have...
Especially does he so inquire if he is an artist--not the mental midget of pseudo-aesthetic tendencies, but the occasional person who wants to create rather than criticize, to build rather than to fresco other people's buildings with the rococo delineations of his embryonic criticism. He is mentally tired. He has learned that better writers, painters, musicians than he can ever be have not only preceded him, but have left their art for the catalogues of word epicures and the text books of higher criticism. The flames do or do not leap high in his fire place...
...poster is shaded and filled, not teased, into a powerful fresco on the walls of Manhattan and of life. Karl sees Greta again in her daughter. The girl has found her lover, just such a penniless composer as Karl once was. But the older man is prestige, comfort, immediacy and she accepts him. Frau Zwenge applauds, on that practical side as before. The old grandfather is glad, having loved Karl. George Gewurtz is for it, seeking to force an issue he has long suspected: the truth about Karoline's paternity...
Under the august dome of the Capitol, some distance to the northeast of the Roosevelt Memorial site, other strenuous Americans are commemorated. There, upon a frieze that belts the dome 75 feet from the floor, a fresco depicts scenes from U. S. history beginning with the landing of the bold Italian adventurer, Cristoforo Colombo. Work upon this design was started long ago by Constantino Brumidi, Italian artist, carried on by Filippi Costaggini, another Italian, but suspended in 1899 and never resumed. A gap of blank wall breaks the complete circuit of the frieze...