Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-22
ART NOTES.

Herman Schurig, the German sculpto-,
has come to this country to make bust OF
Edison.
NJ. Meissonier is the first painter ever
raised to the dignity of Grand Cross of the
Legion Of Honor.
Professor John F. Weir, of the Yale Art
School, has prepared model for bronze
statue of ex-President Woolsey. The
statue Will be completed in about three
months and placed in the campus at Yale.
A monument to Samuel Slater is to be
unveiled at Pawtucket on July u, 1890,
the centennial anniversary of the first op-
Grafton of cotton-spinning machinery in
America, of which machinery Mr. Slater
was the maker
A substantial citizen of Norwalk, Conn,
has determined to leave that Furnishing
town because marble Venus de Medici on
his lawn has been ruined with red paint
and hung with hannels and shawls by GER
tain local wits.
Mrs. Luman Andrews, a well-known
botanist and artist at Soutnington, Conn.,,
is engaged in the study of the complete
flora of Connecticut, and each plant, with
its bud and blossom, is painted as nearly
actual size as possible.
| The site of the Temple of Despoina at
| Lykosoura, Greece, has been found. A
colossal torso, three heads of statues larger
than life, the base of marble throne.
temple inscriptions, and great quantity
OF ex votos in terra Gotta are in the find.
Many of the latter are efigies of rams and
serpents.
A fitting memorial window is being
erected in the Sage Chapel at Cornell
College by the students in civil engineer
ing, in memory of Edward S. Nevins. the
hero Of the class of 80, who lost his life
last winter while endeayoring to save that
of a young woman who fell through the ice.
Ex-President A. D. White suggested this
when in Egypt.
The excellent etcher, Karl Koepping,
who was recently award a medal at the
Paris Exposition, resides at present in Ber-
lin. Koepping is one of the etchers who
get the highest prices for their works. For
the plate of Munkaczsy's celebrated pic
ture, Christ before Plate" he received no
less than $4,000 The first prints were
bought by Englishmen and Americans at
s4OO.
At the Louvre has been completed the
mosaic for the central cupola of the grand
staircase. 1t consists of four colossal figures
designed by Lenepveu, representing France,
Italy, Germany and Flanders; beneath
them are four medaliions with portraits of
Poussin, Raphael, Duer and Rubens; and
all around the cupola are the names of
great artists of the four nations. The exc
cution of the mosaic has been the work of
the Roman artist Vanutelli, for whom
direct request was made to the Pope and
who has proved his fitness for the commits
sion.
The portraits Of his children shown BY
Abbott III. Tbayer at the exhibition of the
Society of American Artists are in Chica-
go. The critic of the Chicago Daily Ners
remarks of them; perhaps the painter
was more than usually inspired in this
work because of love for the subjects. Per-
haps he can paint other children as Won
derfully as he has these-if So he is the
ideal painter Of the day in portraits of
children. This work is among the few
productions Of contemporary art which are
Justly entitled to be called works OF genius.
think, in the deepest analysis that can
be made Of it, the secret Of this portraits
remarkable charm will be found in its
spirituality ard exquisitely-relined express
sion of character. The very nature Of the
two children seem to be painted as well as
their outward FORMS"
The aeropolis of Yeti, an Eastern city
captured and dismantIed by its neighbors