Long before Christianity became a power the great literary artists of Greece had reached perfection in style and language, especially in Athens, to which city youths were sent to be educated, as to a sort of university town where the highest culture was known.

In 1902 the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell and illustrate the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

They generally tried to express this fascination by discovering resemblances in her to various well-known pictures of celebrated artists.

Of course we are speaking of the true creative artist, and not of the laborious copyist.

He may be compared to Phidias, Praxiteles, Alcamenus, or other eminent artists; for neither did they make the gold, the silver, the ivory, or any of the materials which they worked upon.

" If this is true of the interests of the professional artist, much more must it be true of the art training of the child.

The sunlight lay so beautifully on the hillsides, and contrasted so admirably with the deep shadows of the valley beneath, the lake was so calm and still, the old woods stood around so moveless and solemn, that one could scarcely persuade himself that he was not looking upon some gigantic picture, the fanciful grouping and transcendent coloring of some ingenious and winning artist.

For seventeen years after he was seventy-two he worked on St. Peter's church; worked without pay, that he might render to God his last earthly tribute without alloy,as religious as those unknown artists who erected Rheims and Westminster.

When the kings from the regions all around have sent skilful artists to take a copy, none of them have been able to do so.

The novels are pitilessly sad, but they are nevertheless products of a genuine artist in temperament and technique.

A number of the Illustrated London News, of December, 1857, or January, 1858, contains a clever drawing, by an accomplished artist, of the mode of travelling over this road, under the title, "A macadamized road in Manila.

or not rather a likeness, which the clever artist contrived to palm upon us instead of an original; while we secretly connived at the delusion for the purpose of greater pleasure, than a more genuine counterfeiting of the imbecility, helplessness, and utter self-desertion, which we know to be concomitants of cowardice in real life, could have given us?

To which neither of the young ladies made any answer in words, nor could the little artist comprehend why they looked at each other and burst out laughing.

This employment of a foreign artist was unusual there and caused much comment.

Hung beside them on the walls are little pictures, often very well executed in the miniature-like Hindoo style by native artists in the island.

He is a finished artist, and employs the very simplest means.

He had been much annoyed, according to his own account, by Michel Angelo's habit of laughing at the efforts of artists inferior in skill to himself, and had determined to punish him.

In fact, should this gifted artist ever travel among Bonapartists, he will certainly be hunted down in an astounding manner, and the populace, adopting American customs, will probably congregate to see him astride a rail.

To paint this, unless means of painting lightthe one great deficiency which is still the opprobrium of human artwere discovered, would task to the uttermost the powers of the ablest artist, and at best he could give but a very imperfect notion of it.

Brampton sounds like a title; and so my hearty congratulations, and may you and her ladyship live long to enjoy it!" "Mr. Punch" was good enough to furnish me with a beautiful and humorous coat of arms, done by that very talented artist Mr. E.T. Reed.

The better literary artist, whose drawings were refused, was almost unknown, and had to work hard for more than ten years before he received recognition.

They, with the doubtful exception of Marcellus II., accepted him on trust as a thoroughly honest servant, and the only artist capable of conducting the great work to its conclusion.

At last he fixed upon the Last Judgment, considering that the variety and greatness of the theme would enable the illustrious artist to exhibit his powers in their full extent.

In the First Adventures, even, it needed all the art of the most consummate artist in the Book way that the world hath yet seen, to keep up in the mind of the reader the heroic attributes of the character without relaxing; so as absolutely that they shall suffer no alloy from the debasing fellowship of the clown.

The moment is seized by the intuitive artist, perhaps not self-conscious of his art, in which neither of the conflicting emotionsa moment how abstractedhave had time to spring up, or to battle for indecorous mastery.