The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . -cred character, beingepisodes in the lifeof our Lord. Whileeach design forms apiece perfect in itself,the details and color-treatment of the sev-eral parts are thesame in both, andmake them suitablefor use as a pair. Inthe first window wehave the story of theBox of Precious Oint-ment pictorially ren-dered, and beneath ita rosette and angel,with the legend de- 360 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. scriptive of the stor_\-, She hath chosen tliat ^ood part. In the second windowour Lord is represented dehveriny the keys un
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . -cred character, beingepisodes in the lifeof our Lord. Whileeach design forms apiece perfect in itself,the details and color-treatment of the sev-eral parts are thesame in both, andmake them suitablefor use as a pair. Inthe first window wehave the story of theBox of Precious Oint-ment pictorially ren-dered, and beneath ita rosette and angel,with the legend de- 360 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. scriptive of the stor_\-, She hath chosen tliat ^ood part. In the second windowour Lord is represented dehveriny the keys unto Peter, and below is the text,Jesus sailh unto him : Feed my sheep. The purely decorative enrichment in the two win-dows is Gothicin its style ofornamentationhas almost be-come tradition-al, owing to theintimate con-nection be-tween the artof glass-paint-iny and theprogress ofGothic architec-ture. But inthese modernexamples wehave a pictorial rendering of a subject alto-e ether un-known to an-cient examplesof the art. Sym-bolism was pri-marily the ob-. whose worksare character-ized by a monu-mental simplici-ty. The newschool of picto-rial art in con-nection withglass-painting isprincipally prac-tised at Munich,where many su-p e r b workshave been con-structed. Bothschools havetheir advocates,and as there ismuch to be saidin favor of both,we shall not en-ter into a dis-cussion of themerits of eitherin this reader whois interested inthe subject willIt is one of the jectof theartist, find the literature ot glass-painting very voluminous and fu arts that from having been regarded as lost has been revived and brought to a greater state of perfection, as far as technique is concerned, than ever before. INDUSTRIAL ART. 361
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