Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read, the letters they wrote, their changing opinions as they and the times changed. He has paraphrased their own writings in building up his pictures of them, so that the book is not "original" in the usual sense of the term so much as it is a beautifully-conceived mosaic for which the art of an entire period has contributed the material. That it is written in as graceful prose as any U. S. writer can claim is a tribute to Mr. Brooks's taste. That he can quote the source, in some novel, diary, letter or essay...
Assisted by three of his seven red-headed sons, red-bearded Lawrence Saint made the Hildrup windows, like all his stained glass, in traditional medieval fashion, from the "cartoon" or original drawing through the firing and blowing of the glass to assembling a mosaic of 2,850 variously colored pieces in the two 10-ft. windows. The clear, simple details were added later with a needle-fine brush. In his big, cluttered studio and furnace, a converted barn at Huntingdon Valley near Bryn Athyn, Pa., Artist Saint has 1,500 color formulas based on chemical analysis of glass going back...
...Denver for her gaudy back yard in which the trees are painted white. Simple and austere, however, are the plans by which able Architect Jules Jacques Benous Benedict will transform the exterior of existing red brick Franciscan buildings into Lombard Romanesque, outfit the interiors with a new altar, mosaic and murals, library, dining hall and study rooms for 20 brown-robed monks. Those monks will call their habitation Bonfils Memorial Monastery...
...reproduction, which measures about sixteen feet by ten feet, is a photographic print of a tracing made over the mosaic. Every detail of the design is clearly shown, and although no colors are brought out, yet there is some indication of the lights and darks of the coloring...
...substances. It has been learned that all that is necessary for the spontaneous generation of certain sugars is sunlight, colored surfaces, water, carbon dioxide, moderate temperatures. Such factors were undoubtedly present on earth a billion years ago. The gap between such naturally generated substances and the half-alive tobacco mosaic virus may be almost no gap at all. Other highlights of the St. Louis meeting...