The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22
Art Aids for
Busy People
Bv MARTHA O. WELLS.
Chairman of the Art Committee OF
the State Federation.
Copyright, 1eoe.)
xu.-Italian Art; Study for Two
Years. Program for Part I.-outllne
Of Architecture and Sculpture.

II ITALIAN art has been so promo, IN
architecture, sculpture and paint
enee on other countries, that it requires
at least two years study. Thru the
art of Italy is seen the history Of the |
people, progress in civilization as well
as decline. Next to Athens, Rome, is
the world 8 richest storehouse of archi-
tectural antiquities, representing the
aters, baths, aqueducts, roads and
triumphal arches, wherever Roman con-
quest led; it's architecture has been
famous and lasting. Practical, skilled
in statecraft, conquerors, the great
in it's wide sovereignty. The one en-
during element in Roman architecture,
which they borrowed from the Etrus-
cans and carried to high degree of
artistic perfection, is the vaulted arch.
Program for italian Art. Part I.
Introductory study, map Of Italy.
Etruscan influence on Roman art.
| Etruscan temples, wall paintings and reliefs.
| Etruscan cemeteries sepulchral chambers.
II.
The Land Of Virgil and Horace.
| Art shown by the story of the Aeneid.
Poets contemporary with the glory of Rome.
Contrast the dominant characteristics of
Greeks and Romans.
Latin and Basilica churches of Rome.
Early Christian art shown in the Catacombs.
! Symbolism in Christian art.
| Early Christian emperors.
| ".
day in ancient Rome; festivals, triumphal
professions, combats. .
| Rome Of today contrast.
| Gateways, roads, bridges
Tombs of the Appian Way.
| Reading, Macau1ay's Virginius.
| Arches Of Titus, Constantine, Severus.
| Columns Of Trajan and Others .:
Colosseum. u.
'Cloaca Maximus, Aqueducts. I.
VI.
Temples Of Jupiter, Saturn, Vespasan.
| Statues, busts, fountains.
| Baths Of Caracalla and Dioclet1an.
Reading, Childe Harold Pilgrimage.
VII.
The Pantheon, compare with others.
The Vatican, history and association.
Paintings In the Vatican.
st. Peters.
The Capitoline Museum.
| Palaces.
st. John Lateran. st. Paul's without the walls.
| History Of Mosaics.
! TX.
! Baptistries Of Florence and Pisa.
Byzantine architecture Of st. Marks.
} Cellini, Donatello, Shfberti. r-- q.
The Robbia and Terra Cottas.
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: Gothic architecture of Milan and siena Ca
thedrals. -..-. -as ..
/ Churches and cathedral Of Florence.
In Florence with Romola.
Botticelli, Lippi, Fra Bartolomeo.
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Ruskin's Mornings in Florence.
Mcclellan Rulers .., =. ... -. ~.
! The Pitt Palace. -..-. 4. .-.--
I'll & Sayonarola. .| ~. p. g.. q
:. How Dante's poems reflected his times.
Michael Angelo sculptor. 3
Michael Angelo as architect and painter.
The Ufzzi Gallery ss 25-ia@~#z7 "a.
? Churches of Florence. s
| Andrea Del Sarto. Brownings poem.
Fra Angelica, Masaccio.
| | Giotto, Cimabue.
XIV
Assist ST. Francis on literature and art.
italian universities, the national library.
Il Parma, Perugino.
Correggio.
: Sienna, Sodoma.
l How to judge picture.
S Unifeation of italy.
e The royal family.
Outline for Italian Art Architecture
0 The Romans combined the beame6
7 (called trabeated) and columnar Ger
clan style, with the arch, vault an6
dome, which they borrowed from the
Etruscans. Greek buildings were i'm
pressive from beauty, Roman from
l grand proportions. The Greek roofing
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