Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-14
THE , GROWTH OF ART.
Progress OF Pa hitting AMI Sculpture from
the 'einotest Agcs.
(Balth uore II arald.D


Ladius. who died A. ID. II.
The magnesium light was first applied
to art photography In Il g.
The best specimens OF alabaster cary
ings have been exhumed at Nneveh.
The British school OF = ater-coior paint
ing is deemed the bess IL the world.
Salvador Rosa was on OF the earliest
and most vigorous lands cape painters.
The palmy days Of A pelles. the Greek
historic painter. were u )out @S2 B. G.
Greek sculptors often used eyes Of glass
or crystal In the faces of their statues.
The Egyptian artists knew nothing OF
perspective, chiaroscuro, or composition.
Rosa Bonheur has the reputation OF
the greatest animal ,; inter who ever
lived.
Sir T. dwin Landseer was pre-emlncnt
Az an animal painter IL specially was
dogs.
pnrsnecftve was first entiically
studied and taught by Ucc lilo, who died
In 1872.
The American School OF Landscape
Painting was founded by i.homas Cole
about 1925.
The first caricaturist is said TO hive
heen Antiphiius. an Egyptian, about S32'
Il. G.
Tho architects OF the Jewish Tabern acle
In the Wilderness were BZaleel and
Aholiab
THE first I,ainter in Rome was brought
from Etruria by Quintus Fabius about
Il. G. 29l.
BENJAMIN West was a native OF Penn
avlvania hut gained all his reputation
abroad.
Sir .rosnua Reynolds was best IN Dor-
traiture and history. and admirable as
a colorist.
The first great artists OF the Venetian
school were the brothers G-n,it. ana
Giovanni B,sllini.
Down to the days OF Apelles the Greeks
knew but four colors-white, red yellow
and black.
The famous Venus de- Modlci is, by
some. attributed to Cleomenes' by o'Iers
to Alcamenes.
In 1861 photography was first sue cess
fully applied TO the transfer oil ART "orkS
TO wooden blocks.
The portrait statues of the carly Ro-
man Emperors are among the hhest relics
of ancient art
The first English sculptor of note was
FIoxnon. an artist Of singuarly fine
ideal conceptions
Thomas Gainsborough was the first of
a long and noble line Of English land
scape painters
Apolodurus. about 4Oi r. G, enunciatcd
the principles and value of Hight and
shade in painting.
Aristides OF Thebes. was. according to
Pliny. the greatest ancient master of
expression.
The best examples Of Christian art
during the first three centuiues are in the
Catacombs Of Rome.
Phidon Of Argos. 7is b. c., is believed
to have been the first sculptor TO employ
metals in statUary.
All the Egyptian paintings were exc
cuted according to n code of rules laid
down by the priesthood.
The employment OF photographs in the
formation of sculptures was first made
by Villeme in 1868.
Theodorus the Greek is reputed 10 have
been the first sculptor to have cast metals
in the form of statuary.
The most nourishing period Of Egyptian
art was from Il. c. 400 to Il. {. J2J. the
time Of the Persian conquest.
In the statues of their deities the Greeks
often made the flesh Of ivory and the
drapery Of gold, brass. or iron.
Apelles is said by Plny to have invented
the use of canvas in painting. He also
employed oaken tablets.
The finest existing ancient picture is
mosaic, the Battle Of Issues" found in a
pavement at POmpeii
The authentic period Of Greek art be-
gins with the arrival OF PolygnotoS, OF
ThaOs, in Athens. about 1853 Il. c.
Apelles owed his brilliant coloring to
LIQUID Of unknown composition, with
which he covered his pictures.
The sculptured lions on the gate Of
Mycenae are believed to date from the
ninth century before the Christian Era.
Correggio, in the sixteenth century.
brought the art of chiaroscuro and relief
to comparative perfection.
Polygnotus, the first portrait and his
toric painter whose name has been pre-
served, lived in Greece b. c. 49,
encaustic painting, method or burn
ing the colors into wood or ivory.
The only work Of Myron, a celebrated
contemporary Of Phdias known to exist,
is the "Discobolus." or QUOT player.
The painter of the French Revolution
and Empire was David. whose battle
scenes excited a Juror all over Europe.
Copley. an American, left no important
works. save portraits. in this country,
but did his best work in England.
No authentic painting by any one of
the famous Greek or Roman masters or
antiquity is now known to be in ex-
istence.
The Roman galleries were greatly in
creased in H. C. l4G by a large number
of pictures brought from Corinth by Num-
MUS.
The early Egyptian paintings were en-
ployed as Subordinate 10 sculpture, the
statues being painted in life colors.
Henry Fox Talbot discovered, in 1899
a method of multiplying Photographic
impressions by producing negative plate
The great revival Of painting during
the Middle Ages was due 10 Giovanni
Cimabue, of Florence, i'll the thirteenth
century.
Portrait-painting in England received
its first strong impulse from Henry WILL
who invited Holbein and Titan 10
England.
From the fifth TO the fourteenth cen
fury, Constantinople was the centre or
the worlds art and the Byzantine style
prevailed
Veronese was the greatest colorist or
his century His specially was found
IN scenes Of festive pomp and courtly
ceremony.
The Wothly type process Of making
photographs. by the salts of uranium
and collodion, was put into practical use
in 1864.
To Hubert Van Eyck is due the dis
covery of a drying varnish more suitable
for mixing with pigments than any vehi-
Gle before used.
Egyptian statues of all kinds were gene
rally painted. and the granite OF which
they were made was always beautifully
polished.
The celebrated group of Niobe and her