Word: workmanship
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...picture is on panel and represents the Madonna and child with youthful angels playing upon musical instruments. It is one of the early type with a gilt background. Certain crudities in the drawing and workmanship are apparent even to those who are not used to pictures of this period, but the sympathetic observer will find that the painting has splendid qualities if judged as a decorative piece. The color and design are rich and beautiful...
...etchings by John Ruskin is being held in the Upper Gallery of the Fogg Art Museum, in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46. The collection illustrates the intimate friendship of Ruskin and Norton, which extended over a period of more than forty years. The various specimens show Ruskin's workmanship in pencil, wash, and water color, and the exhibit includes some of his remarkable architectural drawings, hasty sketches of landscape, and careful and detailed studies from nature...
...more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school composition. "The Friend," a sonnet, though not quite musical and at the end not quite clear, may be called a "lovable" poem for its fine spirit and its unpretentious truth. The other poem, "The West," shows in the rhythm...
...fine example of the German art of its time. From Mr. Roger A. Derby, the museum has received an Italian painting of the Madonna with St. Catherine, attributed to Luini. Messrs. E. W. Forbes '95, Richard Norton '92, and Alden Sampson '76 have sent a limestone relief of ancient workmanship from Palmyra, and Mr. James Loeb '88 has given 48 casts of ancient marbles, bronzes and terra-cottas from the collection of the late Professor Furtwraengler of Berlin...
Perhaps the first act of the play seems of lesser consequence and lower workmanship than the rest. So also the second, due perhaps to "cutting," seems not yet to have struck the right balance between the stories of Hartwell, the leader of his people, and Hartwell, the lover of a Christian. But the third and fourth acts bring the play to an eloquent and direct intensity which holds until...