Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hayes will read tonight in Sever 11 among other selections, Longfellow's Sicilian's Tale, "King Robert of Sicily," in "Tales of a Wayside Inn," the Forum scene from "Julius Caesar," and Browning's "Count Gismond...
...lecture will include comment on the characters of Sir John Falstaff and "Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur"; criticism of Henry VIII in the representations of Mr. Irving and other players; and reading of the Crispin speech, the scene between Falstaff and the Chief Justice, and Mistress Quickly's description of the death of Falstaff...
...general idea of nature is the most important. A picture, accurate in every detail of some scene in real life, is pleasing when we first look at it, because of the story which it tells, but it always tells the same story; it can tell but one story because of the care which has been taken to represent this one idea truthfully. A picture fulfilling our ideal gives the suggestion of nature with just sufficient accuracy to enable the outsider to put his own characters in the place of those on the canvas, so that the picture...
...lecture will include comment on the characters of Sir John Falstaff and "Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur"; criticism of Henry VIII in the representations of Mr. Irving and other players; and reading of the Crispin speech, the scene between Falstaff and the Chief Justice, and Mistress Quickly's description of the death of Falstaff...
...question of local color is the hardest that comes to the artist. Things are not really the way they look. When we paint for example a summer scene, putting in all the rich greens and other bright colors, we get nothing approaching the true effect. Those artists who have been most successful in catching the salient points of a scene and in making it all true, use always soft colors, gray and yellow ochre. The best examples of this sort of work are the wonderful paintings of Cazin...