. International studio. MEDAL ST. GEORGE BY MAX DASIO Much as this is to be deplored (especially in theinterests of the creative artist), it is equally difficultto see how any improvement can be broughtabout. In Germany the erroneous belief is stillwidely entertained that for thepurposes of portraiture themedal is proper only tocrowned heads, generals, andother great men ; there is norecognition of the fact that inpoint of worth it is equal tothe painted portrait and atthe same time is far moreenduring; least of all has itdawned upon the Germanpeople at large, how incom-parably more valuable a
. International studio. MEDAL ST. GEORGE BY MAX DASIO Much as this is to be deplored (especially in theinterests of the creative artist), it is equally difficultto see how any improvement can be broughtabout. In Germany the erroneous belief is stillwidely entertained that for thepurposes of portraiture themedal is proper only tocrowned heads, generals, andother great men ; there is norecognition of the fact that inpoint of worth it is equal tothe painted portrait and atthe same time is far moreenduring; least of all has itdawned upon the Germanpeople at large, how incom-parably more valuable a medalor a plaquette must be as arecord to hand down toposterity than a photograph,which soon becomes faded, and never perhaps had or are entrusted to the medal factories^in which art receives much less than herdue. It is therefore very gratifying to findthat generous support and encouragementfor the medallist is forthcoming from aprivate individual, a man possessed of akeen sympathy for art and who hasspared no efforts
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