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Foreshortening in ceiling decoration is often greatly overdone,-in fact, realistie foreshortening is only possible in freely floating figures and even here, when violent, it is apt to produce an ugly effect. There is in reality no need for ceiling decoration,-wall panelling is always preferable...
...meeting of the board of trustees of Exeter Academy, the resignation was tendered and accepted, to take effect at the end of this school year, of Dr. Oscar Faulhaber, who will then have completed 20 years of service as in structor and as professor of French and German...
Some of the paintings of our time may rise to as high a level as those of the Renaissance, but the art of that time was on the whole above us. Though we may laugh at the simplicity of some of the early masters, its effect on our own style has been marked. Few, if any, modern artists have succeeded in reproducing...
Hugo was essentially a lyric poet and he was completely wrapped up in the romantic movement. He did not see that a scientific movement was making itself felt in literature. Those who did see the growth of this movement feared that its effect on poetry would be fatal. They believed that poetic sentiment and expression were incompatible with scientific accuracy. But their fears were not well grounded; for there sprang up a new school of poetry which proved that by reconciling these ideas to each other a better poetry would be produced...
...that when a nation has had an overruling desire for one thing it has found that for which it desired. Every age,- the period of Crusades, of the Reformation, and of the Renaissance, has had one dominant enthusiasm, sometimes hard to understand, but if national, always having a lasting effect. The Renaissance is the only period where pictorial art was the chief form of national expression and so it is but natural that this time should have brought out the best works...