The book An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe was written by author J Beavington Joseph Beavington Atkinson Here you can read free online of An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe a good or bad book?
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The fact is, the religious arts in Russia are in an anomalous and false position ; they are divided between the effete Byzantine and the flaunting modern ; there is no interval or inter- mediate resting-place between a Madonna, black as ebony, and a span-new saint decked in costume as for a book of fashion. The art-revival fostered by Russian emperors is not on a par with even that modern mediae- valism, the so-called school of Christian art patronised and pampered by King Ludwig in Munich. Tha...t the Government is wise in taking to mosaics in some form as a national system of wall-decoration cannot be ques- tioned. It is evident that the exclusion of sculpture from the Russian church leaves a void not easily filled. Frescoes would have been probably incompatible with the climate, and, moreover, must have Been overpowered by the richness of adjacent marble, malachite, lapis lazuli^ &c.; whereas mosaics, being built up of solid materials, com- port well with the surrounding structure. The com- mencement already made in this magnificent decorative process cannot fail to have ample development in the future.
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