Word: artistical
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Miss Annettee Kellermann appears to great advantage throughout the piece, and her diving and other nautical accomplishments are those of a sea-artist--surely such a thing exists. But Miss Kellermann, with all her marine art, cannot save the play from dragging, and it is all because the thread of narrative becomes so unravelled after the first few minutes that it would take Sherlock Holmes himself to comprehend exactly all that is going on. For those events which do seem perfectly consistent to us are scenic rather than dramatic, and if "A Daughter of the Gods" is intended...
...fact, the pair owned by Cardinal Bentivoglio, which subsequently came into the possession of the king of Naples. The student of Claude will welcome the rare chance of comparing these early landscapes with that in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, painted at the very end of the artist's career...
Born in 1600, Claude Gellee, called is Lorraine from his native province of France, ventured to Rome in his youth struggled as a paint-boy in Tassi's studio, and won his first recognition from Cardinal Bentivoglio, who, in 1629, purchased two pictures from the young artist. When Pope Urban, who was shown them by the cardinal, expressed his exceptional pleasure, the landscapes of Claude became the fashion, and his fame steadily rose during the rest of his long life of 82 years. At his death he was a recognized classic, his reputation remaining steadily supreme in his field throughout...
...army surgeon. Sir Francis Bacon believed that his fame would rest of his career as a lawyer and statesman. Bourne-Jones did not begin to paint until he was nearly thirty years old. In our own time we have seen Mr. Booth Tarkington who aspired to be an artist emerge as one of the leading American authors...
...casually and with too much modesty, two excellent novels, and a book on English composition which has carried his precise knowledge, the guidance of his flawless taste and his inspiriting influence far beyond the walls of Harvard. Whatever he wrote himself bore all the graces of a distinguished literary artist. He leaves Harvard the poorer by a genial personality an unfailing sympathy for the student (too often obscured behind an exterior of mocking shyness), and a fund of knowledge which the college will be long in replacing. Boston Tcaucribt...