Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged, by Edwin Howland Blashfield; (1913)
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 322
ndrude; gradually they grew into beauty, and as timewent on, palaces took their place, and always newerand lovelier palaces, till the very flower of Gothicand Renaissance art bloomed above the mud ofthe morass. It was all supported upon piles drivenwith a cunning and skill which are interesting… … ~ oc ■z E FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION IN ART 229 the pile-driving had to be done, and done right, inorder that the superstructure should be substantialand lasting. Festina lente (Make haste slowly), saidthe old Romans; they did make haste slowly, andestabhshed so firm a polity that they enhghtenedthe…
Mural painting and decoration · Painting
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