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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nrectangles, covered with gesso and gilt, with apiece of red linen placed at the back to showthrough and lend the charm of its note to thefine harmony of the whole. Glad as we must be that objects of such beauty-have been rescued from oblivion, we must feel sadat the thought that even lovelier things whichwere contained in the tombs of the pharaohs andtheir queens have disappeared forever. But even though the gentle life of Old Egyptis gone, with its passionate striving for beauty, asexemplified in the love (almost worship) whichthe people had for the color and form of flowersand for the graceful contour of animals, we must bethankful that there has been preserved for us eventhese few meagre records of their everyday craft.They will be an inspiration for us in these timeswhen we are coming to see, as a people, that lifemeans something more than material achievementand that the truest gauge of any civilization—oldor new—is to be found in its art. one ninet v june 1922 inceRDACionAL
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SAINT PAUL In the two hundred yearsbetween the making of thesestatues, Gothic art gained thefluent realism exemplified inthe Saint Paul. It bears aclose resemblance to the workof Claus Sluter, the maker ofthe famous Well of theProphets at Dijon, and isattributed to Sinters nephew,Claus de Werve. The earlyhistory of the statue is notknown, but in 1792 it was pur-chased from the Dominicanconvent at Poligny—a littletown in the mountainous re-gion of the Jura—by a certainClaude Antoine Dubois, inwhose family it remained untilrecently. It is now in theMetropolitan Museum. SCULPTURESREVEAL GROWTH/GOTHIC STYLE This XIII centur) French Gothic statue, reproduced below, which has recently beenacquired by the Metropolitan \lu ,representsa KingofJudah a subject whichappealed particularly to the mediaevalimagination. Its particular importance is inshowing the stilling of the new spirit ofnaturalism which gave rise to the Gothicstyle. Such a statue as this marks one ol thefirst steps awa\ from

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