Art Museums and Schools: Four Lectures Delivered at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtC. Scribner's sons, 1913 - 142 Seiten |
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ancient ancient Greece ancient Rome antiquity archæology architecture ART AND TEACHERS art-teaching artist Athens beauty become Botticelli century child classes classical literature color Comenius decorative English eye and hand fact feel Fra Angelico Gallery gold happiness Herakles high schools history of art Homer human ideal illustrations Indian instance interest Israel Putnam jects jeunesse dorée John Keats KENYON COX Lady Hamilton lery less live look ment method mind mise en scène monuments moral MUSEUMS OF ART Mycenæ never Nineveh objects painter painting past perhaps period pict poet possessed possible present pupils Roman Saint sculpture seems Shelley Sophocles sure teach history teacher of history teaching of art teaching of drawing tell Tennyson things tion Tiryns to-day touch training of eye vases visual vital wonder words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 11 - And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I who am curious about each am not curious about God, (No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death...
Seite 7 - I tell thee, Blockhead, it all comes of thy Vanity ; of what thou fanciest those same deserts of thine to be. Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged (as is most likely), thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot : fancy that thou deserves! to be hanged in a hair-halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
Seite 27 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Seite 18 - NINEVEH. IN our Museum galleries To-day I lingered o'er the prize Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, — Her Art for ever in fresh wise From hour to hour rejoicing me. Sighing I turned at last to win. Once more the London dirt and din ; And as I made the swing-door spin And issued, they were hoisting in A winged beast from Nineveh.
Seite 36 - One seem'd all dark and red — a tract of sand, And some one pacing there alone, Who paced for ever in a glimmering land, Lit with a low large moon.
Seite 24 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...
Seite 14 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Seite 12 - A thing of beauty is a joy forever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness...
Seite 30 - Remember the old man, and what he was Years after he had heard this heavy news. His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength.
Seite 33 - And one, an English home— gray twilight pour'd On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep — all things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.