Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-01

SNOW my WHAT severe measures the ltallan
government is taking to keep its price
less art treasures at home. In one in
stance a nobleman was arrested this
week for selling Il painting to j. Pier
pont Morgan. 1t was daubed over and
successfully ~sanltegled out of the coun-
try. Italian detectives who are employed
solely to watch the palaces of the noble
men and see that they 90 not sell any
OF their treasures, soon noticed it's alb
sence, and reported. He was arrested and
sentenced to pay a heavy fine and to give
to the government the entire sum he
received from Morgan for the painting.
He is SO heavily in debt he cannot pay
the fine. Yet his palaN is full of al
most priceless works of art. The govern
ment will not allow them to leave the
country. IF an owner wants to sell, the
government will pay him a mere pit
| lance, but they must not leave Italy.
: That country realizes that her priceless
sculpture, carvings, tapestries and paint
ings are one of her chief charms, one
drawing card to induce rich Americans
and others to go there and be fleeced.
Mrs. Green Majors spoke Of an article
in the November %Scrfbner, describing
the finding Of some valuabl paintings in
Mexico, among them a Titan. Mrs. Ma
jOrs spoke Of an exhibit Of the Union
League club in New York which she
attended, all the paintings on exhibition
having been loaned ny w. "a. Clark.
There We're twelve Of them, SOME very
large canvasses. She was especially
pleased~With a Reubens and a Corot. a
picture of Italian lakes, a Turner, was
another exquisite gem. Mrs. Majors
spoke of the famous painting Of For
tuny's, Choosing a Model
This painting has been widely discuss
ed, both by the press and would-be pur-
chasers of it. Mrs. Majors said that it
was very small as compared with the
other paintings, probably about three
and one-half feet wide by three and one
half feet long. In its pale, transparent
colors, she said that it resembled an opal
amongst the more sombre gems. 1t rep
resented the interior of a French salon
with its multiplicity of mirrors, rich tap
estries and onyx columns. Right here is
where a diversity of opinion ARISES, for
Mrs. Majors saidfrankly that the figures,
the subject itself, she did not like, and
she would not care to own it.
Mrs. Newill announced a meeting of
"the social and domestic science depart
ment at her residence, AIS West Galena
street, next Tuesday, at 3:15 p. m.
a resolution was passed to have no
iiiS0NiiS W ~ oli ANAL q
urday. 1t was postponed one week.
As chairman Of the art department.,
Mrs. ]. A. Canty had charge of the pro-
m The first selection was a plano
duet by Miss Pettibone and Miss Allen.
1t was the Morning Song" describing
the awakening of the Sphinx by the
morning sun. Mrs. c. G.. Pingel was to
have read a paper, but not being able to
be present, Mrs. Newill read her paper
for her. The keynote of the paper was
given in the opening sentences: Sat the
beginning of our century the dominant
influence in the art worldwas Of the DAY.
id type, emanating from the Paris
schools and extending into all the acad-
emies of Europe. Hard and fast rules
governed all art compositions and sacred
art In particular was in bondage to the
traditional forms which had been hand
ed down from Raphael. The types of
the Italian renaissance, after three CEN
turtles of constant repetition had passed
into universal acceptance. The whole
world had come at last to regard the
gospel story by the light of this art,
and the ordinary readers mental pictures
of Palestine in the first century were un-
consciously drawn from Renaissance
pictures.
For such a state of affairs it required
men of no ordinary quality to work a
Change-men indeed of positive genius.
Such men there We're and they arose sud-
denly to face the situation. The account
of their efforts forms one of the most in
teresting pages of art history"
Mrs. Pingel described that first i'm
portant step in London in 1s4s when sew
en- young artists formed the League of
Sincerity
She described the wonderful book of
e~ngravings which stimulated them to
such great ambition. She described how
they came to call themselves the pre-
E@phaelite brotherhood. OF these seven
artists only three are now famous in art
annals, Rossetti, Millais and Holman
Hunt. She spoke of the leadership of
Rosetti, and the keynote he set in his
"Girlhood of the Virgin" Mrs. Pingel
graphically described this painting in de-
tail. She told of the history of the "Ecce
Antilla Dominica; rejected by the royal
academy, sneered at by critics, admired
by a courageous few, and purchased in
1886 by the national gallery for a place
of honor on it's wall.
Mrs. Pingel next took up MiIIafs, allud-
ing first to his Christ i'm the House of
His Parents of the contempt and abuse
shoWered on it. She called attention to
the manner in which the late president OF
the royal academy lost the original spirit
of pre-Raphaelism. She gave the story
of how Ruskin took up the cudgels in
defense of the pre-Raphaelites; of his
admiration of Holman Hunt and his
Triumph of the Innocents,' that great
work of sacred art.
OF Burne-Jones Mrs. Pingel said ''The
name of Burne-Jones should be added to
the English pre-Raphaelite roll of honor,
though he never took the name of the
Brotherhood. Beginning his art studies
upon the advice and under the instruc-
ton of Rosetti he has shown himself a
kindred spirit in his work.
The movement in Germany also known
as the pr~e-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was
next taken up. A sketch was given Of