Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-19
ART AND THINGS ARTISTIC.

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The Sacramento School of Design now
has the largest winter classes since its
founding.
1t is proposed to erect monument to
Miss Emma Willard in Troy. Her hobby
was the higher education of women.
Mrs Perugini, Charles Dickens second
daughter, sketches for the English maga-
zines. She is also successful painter of
children's portraits.
New York's famous institution, Cooper
Union, for the advancement of science and
art, has opened with an enrolment of
$500 young men and women. On the
waiting lists are more than 1000 names.
Lady Randolph Churchill, generally
well known as woman of good, strong
sense and beauty, is such a clever mu-
sician and artist that she declares her abil-
| ity to earn a handsome living for herself,
if there were need of it, by teaching either
of these accomplishments.
Art is given to shifting her ground from
time to time in the matter of the aspects
of nature that she studies. In the paint
ers and modelers of the fifteenth century
we discern an enthusiastic delight in the
physical forms Of infancy that has not been
approached by any other age. The inter-
est in babyhood has in the nineteenth CEN
| tury found its strangest expression in lit
erature. 1t seems to find the subject
hardly of sufficient interest for representa-
tion on its own merits. Sir Everett Mil
lais has painted splendid Graded baby,
but it is being fioated away in an inunda-
ton; as if the subject wanted that element
of terror to hold the spectator. In the
average picture of our exhibitions, where
a baby is introduced, it is usually to
/ heighten our interest in the mother,
whose husband is away on the sea; in the
betrayed or widowed mother-but seldom
on its own merits.
A French painter, NJ. Deschamps, is
perhaps the only man at the present time
who expresses in painting a frank delight
in the subject of infancy without any
| added sentimental interest. If we exam
inc the colums of art criticism of to-day
we shall make the curious discovery that
to say man paints babies is a form of re-
proach Verrochio, the painter of Ma
donna in the National Gallery, that is
there attributed to his school, has left be-
hind him two typical figures that show a
width Of range as surprising as his skill.
His bronze statue of Bartolomeo Colleone
at Venice is widely known as one of the
best equestrian figures that the world has
ever seen, and no less admirable than the
force and artistic beauty CT its workman
ship is the wonderful grasp of character
shown in its conception. The horseman
is incumbered with heavy panoply and
his face is partly shadowed by his helmet,
but the individuality of the man is given
to us through all distractions. He is per-
haps the most forcible embodiment in art
of human strength as he sits throned on
his saddle. A chain on which the gaunt-
leted fingers can not slip is in his left
hand it connects the broad reins which
control the cruel curb. In his right hand
he grasps the leaders truncheon with
that he launches and directs his human
subordinates with the bride he manipu-
lates the sinewy-mettled beast astride of
which he sits. Dominant humanity in its
strongest manifestation; such is the one Of
Verroechio's types. The other type,
equally clear cut, is of the weakest and
most dependent morsel of humanity
baby. For its truth to nature it stands
out even among the splendid work of the
time