Essays on Education Page 144

First there was the government shutdown, then came the blizzard. For 20 days this winter, the capriciousness of politics and nature closed down much of Washington, including its renowned museums. When the doors opened again, art lovers defied Arctic cold and lined up as early as 5 a.m. in front of the National Gallery of…

Tive and therefore charming small canvas by D. W. Try on, “Evening—Septem ber”; J. Francis Murphy shows a small work delightfully interpretative entitled “Showery Day”; J. Alden Weir is seen at his best in “Autumn,” and William Lathrop in “A Stretch of Salt Marsh land.” Emil Carlsen’s “Wood Interior” has decorative quality aside from pro…

Baroque Dates: (1600-1750) 1. What does “musical style” mean? Different types of musical compositions developed throughout different eras 2. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? New ideas and art was being introduced everywhere. It was a time of personal expression and drama. There was controversy between Catholics and Protestants which…

The subject of Fig. 1 is the famous nature studies of Sir Edwin Landseer, who has already been spoken of in the May 1898 issue when we studied his “Alexander and Diogenes.” It is worthy of note that eight members of Edwin Landseer’s immediate family achieved distinction as artists. These included his father, John Landseer,…

Titian (1477-1576) is the last of the quartet of the world’s painters; and as a painter pure and simple, in the matter of presenting nature, in his mastery of color, in his sure, strong brushwork, in his ability to keep a composition a unit, in fact, in all those things that go to make a…

The Venetian School, which added the last great element—color—to Italian art, continued the impulse of the High Renaissance longer than did the other schools. Decadence set in less rapidly with them, and the last really great masters were Venetians. The art motive of Correggio was also that of the Venetians. With them it was truly…

Although the painters of these schools are classed as followers of Raphael, they show distinctive characteristics of their own, especially in color, which, however, shows some Venetian influence. Dosso Dossi (1479-1542) of Ferrara was the strongest painter of these schools, a man of much fancy and of a strikingly original treatment of landscape. In his…

Giulio Romano (1492-1546) was the strongest of Raphael’s pupils, and became the real founder of the Roman School, which directly influenced the painting of the Decadence. As long as he was under Raphael’s influence he painted so closely in his style that in many instances his work is almost like his master’s; but after Raphael’s…

A recent ccession of the Museum is a XVI century Italian portrait of the Lombard school, ascribed with a high degree of plausibility to the painter Gianpietrino ( Pietro Rizzo or Ricci), who flourished at Milan during the latter part of the XV century and the opening years of the XVI century. He was not…

The official program for commencement week at Yale is as follows: The exercises will begin on Friday, June 21, and conclude Wednesday, June 26. The first will be the delivery of the Townsend prize orations in competition for the De Forest medal. These will he by six mem- bers of the senior class at three…