The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-05-07

appear asRreSateIy a nd In Detail.
Firm Atkiasqn's Art T1ur.
Moscow is the best cclored CITY know
.s finest of all citSs when seen in distant
.-specsiva, With her thousand and one gol
r~n s5mea glittering in the sun against the
e'7. Cario viewed from the citadel, and
ynssaa:inople irom he tower Of Galata,
:" comparatively gray and coiorlcss. Mos
~ vhen illnmined under sunset shine.
y Oriental -plendor the eye is dazrled
- by brilliant stage scene, more like en-
fHantmen, than realty. Not that the color
i rehned or in strict harmony; often, in.
go, oil that car de said is thnt the painter
= used his paintrot generousy, that vel
la~ ochres, reds, blue and gold urs laid on
t.ick'y. But ary thing that NAV be want
ing on the part Of the artist is supplied by
ne hand Of nature : time brings the harsh :
fst OF pigments into tone atmosphere casts
Delicate veil over the perspective vis,on;
a.stance in short, lonis enchantmant. Il Of
n happens in semi barbaric structures that
2 Int The hrtist Intended may be common.
Lace and coarse, bu, that which he did not
intend. that il, unforeseen accidents. or
e'mbina.ions which viii out by harry
change Of circumstances, proves most effect
ive. Such nre tie pnnoramas whieE arrest
tie travellers steps as the eye sweeps over
the house tops, chihneys, towers, trees,
sided and many colored domes which
stretch from foreground to horizon There
re >;ties ghioh the !atranger should never
ntsr, there are buildings which tho critics
an scarcely dare approach. But magnitude
NJ malsitaas move the imagination. One
'Tinares may 10 mean, one dome may be
sos'anlicant, but the momeu. the unit be-
rornas thousand, AMI ss soon as space
f-F,ien.ly expands for atmosphere to sug-
s'9t magnitule or mystery, then literal
'r:9 gives place to phan,oms, and poems
faa Pictures are wrought out of even the
rmnonss, materials. Yet these colored
r1rn-s, though they hoa. as thing of beau
~ between earth and sky, are rather bull
rs in character Indeed. sometimes,
leg bore themselves upward md outward
excrescences. The construction, too, is
;a.ner grimcrsck /; 10 the kremlin l exam
med several euorelas under repair; then the
nser covering is removed, ribs, az of an
-n5rei,a or Of a lady's criroline, are laid
Grc. 4 makeup thus fimsy and slight ad-
its Of more easy adap tation than bricks
I'd mortar 10 thc many varied forms which
rcY may suggest The curves md cut
nee assumed are graceful, otter fantastic ;
some directions the eye seems to look on
\ number Of giant gourds, in other groop
Turks turbans may 10 suggested, while
ne smaller domes may be mistaken for
upper boxes, decanters, or castors familiar
the dinuer.tables In short the variety
Il forms already in existence is oil but in.
mite, aud others might readily be invented.
Specially gratefd, is common type, not
rger in diameter than minaTet, bearing
. golden dome Mt it's crown. One pretty
tect observad within the Kremlin. The
newly wrought couplas of highly FURNISHED
sulface serve as Claude Lorrain mirrors to
effect the moving clouds, the trees and en-
circlng land scape. II may well be i'm
agined how gay and g.ittering a city looks
hus set with jewels and shining with pat.
ne of bright gold The colors, too, are
,,arcely less varied than the forms besides
yoli there are silver, often blue and green
ana red and sometimes. also green ground
set with gold stars Inscriptions with let
.ers of gold may likewise be seen IS friezes
round towers. So much, indeed, is Moe
,ow city of colors, that the walls even OF
-aiaary dwellings arc illuminated brightly
v it'll red and yellow, md the roofs are green
The climax ia, Of coarse, reached BY krem-
lin, which dominates oyer the city lying
beneath MS n church, palace, aud citadel
This stronghold, the acropolis of Moscow,
il thanked by massive and picturesque tow
era, sarmounted by rough steep roofs,
roassea md colored like the scales Of ser
penis; also over gateways and at angles
--c .asny other towers, which group like
zones and pointed pinnacles and golden
crosses into ever-varying ranoramas as the
spectator rakes the circuit of the walls, or
ss the sun, travelling from cast to west, al
ternates light and shade ; the fcale is
sufficiently extended to gam changeful play
o! atmospheric effect. One Of the towers,
that the of /" Spaski gate, wa. erected by
IN Eugl.shmsn, Christopher Galloway, In
1920. The "Troi,ski tower was also
hnit by him. While the Easements ar7
heavy and gloomy, after the Oriental fash
iou, TIE upper stories, or sky. outlines IN
...ioite fantasy, play with cloudland and
seer, so 10 hold themselves aloft from earth
as 70 become creatures Of elements. The
k-emlin should 30 seen by sunset, twilight
and moonligh.-lo building has such va
ried moods.
EcLrPsEs.-Ther will be feur eelipses In
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