A Fine Collection Of Casts
i jV . yHAT the large j:r Ciy. ¦ rtion o( 5g ií' vVJHA casts o care VS p 5K íully choaen by sQ -í " O 4 M r' Lewl8 T'chJÉHbl 3Sn'Á Ive, chaiman HJasK-BÜ oftheArtSehoo] Lf 8$?committee, cau ¦'jí t ' ñot be seen oc t!' ê.-PJVH5 the occasion of "L- rryyJ the pnins ' x i the iiew museum Ín tlielr allotted place iu the soulpture gallery is to be greatly regretted. But uiuch tima la required to flll o larga an order, and the jmhlio, after l.miing the exteut of the eolleetion, tvill believe a great pleasure is onlv defemd. Ab a completo üietorlcnl serle coula t t be aecomniodated lo the hall, t was contidered best to order, at t!ie present time. only a few casts to show some steps lu thu di-vdopnient from Kt,'V.tiiin and .ssynan to the hiiíheet Greek art; a largor nuniber to show Greek art In lts perfection, and then enough to bring us down to tlie Henaissance period, throuh the rist of Human and decadence oí botU Roman aud Greek seulpture. The tirst serles Ís represented hy Egyptian portrait statues of Seti I., and tll WB Remeses II., who ruled the world niorthau one thousami tliree huudred yern B. C. These are the men whose mummk-d bodies were íound bo recently in ancient Tlifbee among those of many other kini; and princes who expected their lottll would soine day repossess their bodies. Then follow tome of the culptured mural reliefa from Assyria portraying the Uves of some well-kuowu bililical character, thete suppleinented by the curious Arehaic 6tatues and reliëfs which led to Bomething 80 vastly different, that, without tlie wonderful niueteenth ceulur "flnds" which show tlie low changa, one could scarcely believe them th prototypes of the bet Greek teulpture. ThisArcbaic period if seen in the Lyeiau monument callcd the Ilarpy Tomb, the oldest known Greek portrait statue - that of Chares, ruler of Teiehloussa - which was fouiid in 1S58, and lii a curiously ell'emlnate head of Apollo. Of Mghert art we could ask no more tkan Mr. Ivcs !kis oidered- for on the llet a,piars the whole eastern pediment, or gable of the Farthenon, a temple to Alhena, in the Acrópolis of Athens, tnd prt of that gem of architecture the lirechtheum, which is on the same classic Eite. Here we have Ideal architecture and Ideal seulpture that from 500 yeara B. C. to our day have been unrlvalled. The reliëfs In the pedjment group are by I'liidias and hls puplls - coloseal tigures of gods and godde.-see, greatly mulil.ited, headless, but sn grand, eo noble, su above the things al the earth that all who ece tlie originalB must bow before the power of human genius. Mr. Ives Is careful to mclude examples of the vj.rious order of architecture, Dorio, Ionlc and Corinthian, taken each f rom the higheet type of the order. These are made more interesting by special details from architecture on the Atln-nUn Acrópolis- and especiallj by the additlon of one of the fcmale etatue callci Caryatldes which support the porch of the Erechtheura. Of Greek statues, we hav the new Olymplan dlscoverie, Hermes by Praxite'.es, and the Nitsk Paeonloa- the Venus di tillo, Neapolitan Discobolus, Fightlng tor, F&ruesan Mercury, Dancing l-.iun, Antinous of the Capital, Apollo Icre and many other of equal note, some of them copies ol far-famed Greek s. A few busts of historica! Interl t tth the addltion of some classic hendt completa the most Important part of the list. There are portrait busts of Luctus Ven, Julius Caesar, Augustus Cteiar, Mie Antony, Brutus, Marcus Aurellus; a too head called Hoincr, auother of the A)jí.11o Kslvedere, Clytie and some that aie essential in the school. Altogetber it will be quito worthy of the new gallery, and a revelation to those who hav oot íceu copies of Greek seulpture. C. A. A. "One may palnt and onc may wrlte, but the true puinis after all remain in the saiytuarv of the soul and neverpait fron
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