Word: puree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...classical and religious motives need not be further taken up, but about the motive of nature there is still much to be said. The reformers in art tried hard to study and imitate nature, but more to raise the standard of art as regards correctness,than for the pure and simple love of the beautiful. But gradually painters began to study nature for itself, and to be less and less bound down by the wishes of the church...
Andrea del Sarto was of the Florentine type, pure and simple. His subjects were always given to him by the church and were ill chosen to express his skill. He was a materialist in his work, and lacking in loftiness of view. If Leonardo da Vinci looked too deep, Andrea hardly looked deep enough, and we find a lack of spirit and feeling in his pictures. As a craftsman, however, he was faultless. The best painter and colorist of them...
...hundred and fifty members. Those who are carrying on the work in the college do so for the sake of the reform. It is a work which should appeal to the patriotic spirit of every American, and especially of every college man. I ask every man interested in pure and efficient government if the support of the club is not a worthy object of his consideration? Membership blanks and copies of the constitution will be funished upon application to 42 Kirkland street...
...consisted of a number of unrelated shools, into a well-organized university, having a common life which animates every part. This process involved the absorption of the College of Physicians and Surgeons as the medical school of the university and the creation of two schools of Philosophy and Pure Science to conduct the advanced work in philosophy, philology, and letters, and in mathematics and natural science...
...life after death and this he showed by Christ's resurrection. So always we see God revealing himself to us in action. And even today it is not to the Bible alone that we must look, for far better than this is the revelation in the life of a pure and good man who lives out all the teachings of the Bible and shows us, as far as it is possible for a man to do so, the spirit of Christ...