. Studio international . (Copyright Photo., Curtis <&* Cameron, Boston) legend treated pictorially, with just the imaginativetouch and vagueness which the subject requires. We come next—using that essential feature ofAmerican life, the Elevator—to the upper or thirdfloor of the great Library. Here, in 1890, WILLIAM PBNN SIGHT1 IG mm IHORES Of lfN\>M\ VNIA. PANE1 FORMINGPARI OF A FRIEZE IN mi. GOVERNORS RECEPTION ROOM IN THE PI VAM \ 1TAT1 IP M HARRISBURG. PAIN ?> \ VKLEY (Copyright r ? • Cameron, Boston) John S. Sargent was commissioned by its Trustees to decorate both ends of th
. Studio international . (Copyright Photo., Curtis <&* Cameron, Boston) legend treated pictorially, with just the imaginativetouch and vagueness which the subject requires. We come next—using that essential feature ofAmerican life, the Elevator—to the upper or thirdfloor of the great Library. Here, in 1890, WILLIAM PBNN SIGHT1 IG mm IHORES Of lfN\>M\ VNIA. PANE1 FORMINGPARI OF A FRIEZE IN mi. GOVERNORS RECEPTION ROOM IN THE PI VAM \ 1TAT1 IP M HARRISBURG. PAIN ?> \ VKLEY (Copyright r ? • Cameron, Boston) John S. Sargent was commissioned by its Trustees to decorate both ends of the gallery, receiving for this work the sum of 15,000 dollars. In his paintings of the south end, which were the earliest completed, the artists theme is theemergence from the sur-rounding polytheism ofthe Jewish conception ofthe Unity of God. Uponthe great arch of theceiling the monstrous andstrange beliefs of theprimitive races take shapebefore us—the vague formof Neith, the universalMother, spans the entirearch; a brutal, bull-headedMoloch towers up ingiant strength upon theleft; and, on the otherside, Astarte rises, veiledand opalescent, her feetupon the crescent this lovely creationsurely Flauberts greatromance of Carthage musthave been in the artiststhought. This is the verygoddess, Rul
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