The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . de him while they both rest after the work of the bulls are equally fine and majestic, and well indeed do theysymbolize the power of agriculture. The figures beside them areas fine as the animals, and the treatment of both Is In the closestharmony, both in general breadth of method and particular com-bination of forms and lines. In symbolic expression, also, thefigures and animals perfectly agree. It is rare indeed to see groupsby two sculptors so perfectly harmonious in their central motiveand In the treatment of it. It is this continu
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . de him while they both rest after the work of the bulls are equally fine and majestic, and well indeed do theysymbolize the power of agriculture. The figures beside them areas fine as the animals, and the treatment of both Is In the closestharmony, both in general breadth of method and particular com-bination of forms and lines. In symbolic expression, also, thefigures and animals perfectly agree. It is rare indeed to see groupsby two sculptors so perfectly harmonious in their central motiveand In the treatment of it. It is this continuous harmony of desire and method that resultedin making the whole area of the Worlds Columbian Exposition astruly an exhibit of the Department of Fine Arts as the exhibitscontained In the Art Galleries themselves. Artists admire thearchitecture and the general decorative effects of the Fair as trulyas they do the paintings upon canvas, and it is this fact that makesthe whole view of the Exposition the grandest that the modernworld offers to ORE vicissitudes have attended the De-partment of Liberal Arts, of which H. Peabody is chief, than any otherof all on the grounds of the Exposition. Thisis solely due to the immensity of scope coveredby the department, the magnitude of its ex-hibits, and the fact that proper appreciationof its magnitude did not exist until dire ne-cessity drove it home to the offices of the construction greatest building of the Exposition was dubbed the Building ofManufactures and Liberal Arts. It was an immense structure asoriginally planned, with two great courts in the centre. Whenpressure for space first began to be felt, it was decided to roof thesegreat courts, as related in the chapter on Manufactures, thus secur-ing several acres more of floor area. But, as space was assigned,it was seen that unless another great building should be provided,the Department of Liberal Arts was going to be sadly director-general
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