The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-21
TWO GEMS OF ART.
Continued from Tenth Page,

TO cross the lDleSlOAQs TIC A6IlCStliA
Love After this kiss one can see tn
girl already though3All and sad. pass
ing behind the window unfolding
flower: this episode means that tn
flower Of her virgin youth is alread.
touched and bound TO fade.
Thus ends the first part of my Dip
tyeh. l imagined the second part
the door of a church because insid'
poor suffering souls go to seek relic
from their sadness and misfortunes.
Then, as in the first part of the DIP
tyeh, one could see the man represent
ing Love. Here, one can see the man
who, clad in priestly garments rep
resents Faith. and accomphshes ms
pious. humanitarian office, escortine
and consoling discouraged souls &c
their last abode. In the two parts oil
the Diptyeh there are two similar hS-
ures, so that they appear to be the
same person, a fact which is immedi-
ately perceived.
These two figures are the symool
of Wisdom. and really In the first part
of the Diptyeh, while all others girls
run ioyfuIly to the feast, this figure
comes walking in an opposite
direction and looks with an
air of commiseration on all
that thoughtlessness and all those IL
lusions that pass and repass before her
ewes. And in the second part while
all the other figures are burdened with
sorrow, she walks with her head erect,
or at least resigned to the sadness OF
her destiny
I'm technique this picture" Director
Brandt said, differs from all others
in this gallery. 1t is somewhat akin to
the technique of my panels in the
friese above of the four great artists
Appelles, Iktinos, Praxiteles and Durer.
The pathos. the delicate and charming
atmospheric color, the great variety of
the expressions in the figures as well
as the beautiful thought conveyed in
this mastery composition cannot fail
to make it one of the chief attractions
of the Telfair Gallery.
The Directors Painting.
Il now direct your attention
for few moments to the
picture which have painted
Il had announced in my report to the
Georgia Historical Society in April last
that | would paint picture to a scale
during my absence from the studies
which | painted in Egypt, which would
facilitate the work, on the large can
vas now before you, which l then
thought of painting here this season.
When I had finished that picture my
enthusiasm and the desire to complete
the entire friese, of which this is the
first-panel, in the shortest time posi-
BILE made me give up all my own work.
including pcrrait-painting, devoting
and hereafter intend TO devote my
time solely, instead of four months in
each year as l have agreed to serve
the Academy, to the work i love best
and is nearest my heart, and desire
as far .as my humble efforts can do so
to complete as planned by me when
took charge of the Academy as its first
director"
Mr. Brandt then withdrew the cur
tain from his picture of the sphinx and
Great pyramid at Gizeh and said:
This picture, the first of the series,
svmbolizing Ancient Egyptian Art
represents the Great Pyramid and
Sphinx of Gizeh.'
The Great Pyramid.
1.-THE Metropolis of ancient Memphis
in which they are situated, lies on a
plateau one hundred and twenty-feet
above the river Nile on the eastern
boundary of the Libyan Desert, about
eight miles from Cairo. In extent it is
about one mile by three quarters OF a
mile On the extreme right in the mid
die distance is the Great Pyramid,
built by King Khufu, the Egyptians
call it Yekhwet Khufu GLORIOUS place
Of Khufu).
THE so-called second pyramid, fur
Their to the west and in the center of
the picture was erected by King Kha-
ia, the Egyptians call it Wer-Khafra
Great is Khafa). The third pyramid
which was partly built of polished
granite, was erected by King Menlewri.
The Egyptians call it Meter Menkewri
divine is Menkewri)
THE sandstone of these pyramids was
brought from the ancient Quarries Tura
and Mascara in the Makattam Hills to
which HerOdotus ana Diodoros allude
when they say the stone for building of
the great pyramid came from Ara
bia' en- the eastern side of the Nile.
These hills belong to the great range
of numulite mountains which extend
from Northwest Africa across Egypt
and India to China. The red granite of
the third pyramid was brought from
Assuan. five hundred miles from Cairo
up the Nile.
The outer casing of these pyramids
of which still remains about a hundred
feet near the top of the second pyra-
mid embellished with heiroglyphics, has
served as a convenient quarry to Cairo,
where the citidal, many mosques and
other buildings give proof of this van
dalism.
There are remains of smaller pyra-
mlds to the left and riCht. The mounds
which one sees all Over the plateau
are tombs many of them have not
been eXcaVated.
On the extreme left of the picture
Is the entrance to the so-called Sphinx
Temple. entirely covered by sand The
dark walls of dried Nile mud are Of
Roman origin; they were built to pro-
tect the entrance to the temple from
being sanded in. This temple is older
than the Pyramids. 1t is built of pol
ished alabaster and red granite. The
columns are square and monolitic.
I'm the center of the canvas is the
great Sphinx, next to the Pyramids
themselves the most famous monument
in this vast city of the dead, a Colus-
sus nodded out of the natural
rock in the shape of lion
with the head of a man, which
in its couchant position appears to
rise out of a sand hollow, the sand
having been eXcavated at different
periods to free this art-wonder from it's
encumbrance, caused by untold sand
storms of the desert.
The first excavations of which we
know, were made during the Ptolo-
mic and Roman period, by Thutmosis
". The Kings name enclosed in an
oval $50 called cartouche) and a de-
scription of the event is we'll preserved
on the red granite slab in front of the
Sphinx. This tablet and the altar still
nearer the front, We're found by Cavig-
liza in the early part of the last CEN
fury at the bottom, between the claws
on well laid pavement The finding
of the altar on this spot proves that
the Notive Temple of the
Sphinx was here, and not where
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