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 398
he crest of thewave broke, and their followers took easily, tooeasily, what they liked from the wreckage whichlay spread around. Even for the modern painter,humble though he should be before memory ofthe past, there is a certain temptation of thedevil which comes with especial force to the… … AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES 287 space. The theatre for his display is so brilliantin its possibiHties—summary work seen at a distancemay be so effective—and there is so much which hecould borrow easily from his souvenirs, that it isvery hard for the decorator to resist, to nerve him-self for hard work,…
Mural painting and decoration · Painting
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