A Series Of Illustrated Lectures On Art History For Senior High School

Author : Henry Weekes
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230204567
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Art [Ed. by J. E. Weekes] written by Henry Weekes and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XVIII. THE EARLY HISTORY OF SCULPTURE. The Scriptures. CULPTORS have to recollect that their work is sometimes judged by other tests than that of artistic excellence; their brethren may look upon it by that, light, but other men may perhaps try it by other means, and apply to it knowledge of a different kind. Most people, in fact, examine everything that comes before them by a certain scale which they have found infallible in that to which they have devoted the study of their lives. I am induced to make this remark from my recollection of a criticism uttered to me by a Jewish rabbi on a group in Sculpture representing the Temptation of Eve. He admired the work generally, but declared there was one mistake in it: the serpent should have been represented with legs, as otherwise the curse laid upon it in consequence of the act--" Upon thy belly shalt thou go "--would have been as nothing. Strange as the remark may seem, I feel strongly that it was a correct one; at any rate it was correct when tried by the test he had applied to it, the Bible. My remembrance too of the conversation, when a sort of envious wish came over me for the same power that he had of diving into the history of the past, induces me to believe that it may afford you some amusement, and some instruction, if we go together this evening through that same Bible, and search out the various allusions to our Art found within it. They are not perhaps many, nor are they singly of much value; but if collected and bound together they may, not improbably, like the old man's bundle of sticks, gain strength by the conjunction, and assume a more important as well as more distinct character. I may as well tell you at once that we must make use of every mention made, whether...