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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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FINE ARTS. 387 treated the statue in a formal and almost archaic manner on accountof the almost perfectly symmetrical arrangements of the architec-ture around it. It is his triumph that he has succeeded in doingthis. In line and form, and in dignity too, this figure harmonizeswell with the stately buildings about the Court of Honor. Takenbv itself, the fiorure would not be so ao^reeable because it wouldseem a little stiff and lacking in that grace which is to be expectedin the sculptured female form. On the whole, it must be said, that
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A I.EGKND OF THE DESERT. F. Mellville Du Mond, U. S. there is a grand and severe dignity about the great Republicthat is exceedingly impressive and well emphasizes the grandeurof those halls into which she courteously invites the nations of theworld to enter. The other sculptural ornaments about the basin of the Court ofHonor are numerous, and most of them are exceedingly fine. Per-haps the most striking detached sculptures are the horses andbulls, by Mr. Potter, with the figures beside them, by Mr. French.These animals are really noble and grand in style, and it would be 388 FINE ARTS. hard to imagine more absolutely appropriate decorative groups forthe principal entrances before which they are placed. The cart-horse Is treated with remarkable dignity. The worth of his laboris recoofnized in the statue, and he seems himself to be aware thatwithout him the tilling of the fields would be Impossible, except assavages might attempt it. The proud curve of his neck and his in-telligent eye

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