Examples of household taste (1875) (14595697877)

Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library



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nations of the world have drawn the richest treasures of antiquitythat adorn their museums; and yet, great as has been the drain upon her, itis probable that to-day Italy contains, deep buried amid the ruins and thedebris of her former greatness, more riches a thousand-fold than all that havebeen taken from her to the present time. But it is not alone with the remainsof her past splendor that Italy is supplying the demand for those things ofbeauty which carry refinement and culture into every corner of Christendom.While one portion of her people are busily engaged searching for objects ofancient art, another portion are equally busy in reproducing with infinite skilland patience the famous works of the old masters in every branch of art, andstill a third class are hard at work trying to supply the demand for antiquities INDUSTRIAL ART $7 by manufacturing whatever the dealers may desire. Yet it is a noteworthyfeature in the modern work of the Italian workmen that they invariably select
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Group of Glass-ware: Herr Lobmeyr, Vienna. the very best models to copy. They do not even restrict themselves to theirown masters, fruitful as they were in good work, but they avail themselves ofthe art-work* of other lands and nations. In a walk through those portions of 68 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. the Court devoted to terra-cottas and marbles and bronzes, French, Germanand Egyptian works are to be seen together with examples of ancient andmodern Italian art. We select for illustration a bronze replica of the famous Mercury of JeanBoulogne, of Drum. This work, the crowning effort of the great sculptorslife, is familiar to every one by its numerous reproductions in stone and metalas well as by photographs and engravings. It is a favorite ornament for lawns,for pinnacles of buildings, for the tops of columns, and in smaller form as astatuette it adorns cabinets, mantels and niches in the walls of rooms. Again,it is seen in the ornamentation of clocks, vases and objects of th