Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Well beloved son of the College, he was in this generation the fulfillment of Harvard's ideal; "and the grief of a whole state is the witness of his success...
...resolutions of sympathy with the parents of Rev. H. E. Addison '96, who died a short time ago. The society also voted to accept a portrait of the late Rev. Mr. Noble loaned by his widow, to be hung up in the Society's rooms. The painting is an ideal one, representing Mr. Noble as Sir Galahad...
...marked in the world of art as a time of very conventional notions. These notions had been a gradual growth of the teachings of the decadent period in Italian art, with additions from the "pseudo-classicism of Winckelmann and the pedantic antiquarianism of the school of David." The ideals and impulses of the Renaissance by the seventeenth century had lost hold on the artistic imagination in its creative faculty. English landscape painting was involved in mannerisms derived from the landscape backgrounds of the conventional historic figure painting. The Dutch landscape art, while free from these peculiarities and laboriously exact...
...this time that Ruskin came forward with his first volume "in defence of the new landscape art in general, and of the art of Turner in particular." Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments,' in her finest forms and in her vital energy,-Nature as she was revealed to a discriminating eye, and to the poetic imagination." With this feeling he began his essay on 'Modern Painters' that grew to five volumes...
...seldom been inexcusably represented. This work is in the main sound and illuminating. It is on the highest plane of thought and feeling; and no criticism can rob it of its enduring value. It is full of inspiration which lifts the mind continually into the realm of the ideal...