The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . Greece without her marbles would bevague and intangible. How many people have ever readGreek literature, Thucydides, ^schylus, Euripides, yet fewgolden oak tables, book-cases or mantlepieces lack theirplaster casts of the Venus of Milos, or the winged Victoryof Samothrace. The whole history of the Renaissance could be rewrittenfrom the frescoes and paintings of the old Italian Masters—the giowth and supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church,the subtle intrusion of pagan ideas, the beginnings of modernculture. Masquerading as Ma
The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . Greece without her marbles would bevague and intangible. How many people have ever readGreek literature, Thucydides, ^schylus, Euripides, yet fewgolden oak tables, book-cases or mantlepieces lack theirplaster casts of the Venus of Milos, or the winged Victoryof Samothrace. The whole history of the Renaissance could be rewrittenfrom the frescoes and paintings of the old Italian Masters—the giowth and supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church,the subtle intrusion of pagan ideas, the beginnings of modernculture. Masquerading as Madonnas and Saints, they arenevertheless the features and costumes of the men and womenof the period—marvelously vivid records of the times. Holbein, Van Dyke, Reynolds have done the same thingfor English history. What vivid searchlight spots on theEnglish Reformation are Holbeins portraits, fat KingHarry, the shrewd, beautiful face of Anne Boleyn, War-ham, Archbishop of Canterbury, sour and inhuman withreligious zeal; Sir Thomas More, with utopia written on his. AKT AS A HANDMAIDEN OF HISTORY. 5 benign features; sickly little Edward Sixth, and that dearold English matron, with her mediaeval manners and intelli-gence, Lady Butts. It has been said that the whole period of Charles Secondcould be rewritten from Pepys Diary were all else lost, butincompletely written were it not for the portraits by SirPeter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kneller. One look at the por-trait of that shiftless, sensuous Monarchs features and webreathe the atmosphere of those degenerate times. We long to see! a name is but a name, a face we neverforget. Abstractions even we are compelled to visualize. Inthe Sargent room of the Boston Library is a fresco of theTrinity—three old men with long, gray whiskers, wraptunder one cloak. We think mainly with our eyes. One of the greatest educators of the times is the movingpicture show. Its popularity illustrates the point and goesto prove this unconquerable desire t
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