Hungarian Death Custom Inspires Wilstach Portrait
A young Hungarian artist, blinded by illness, painted a scene of a condemned man visited by townspeople the day before execution. Rejected by poverty, the work was bought by Wilstach in Germany, then sent to the Paris Salon where it gained instant fame. The artist later created Christ on Calvary and Christ Before Pilate, and the images now anchor the Wilstach collection at Memorial Hall Art Gallery, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
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Hungary
Wilstach
Philadelphia
Germany
Paris
Christ
Calvary
Pilate
Europe
America
Memorial Hall Art Gallery
Fairmount Park
Penn
Nymphea Lotus and Classical Gallery Etchings Featured
A feature on Art Treasures highlights Edouard Richter's Nymphea Lotus with its central female figure admiring a lotus. It also covers Mantegna's Parnassus and Motte's The Head Vestal Passes, plus Liphart's Olympus engraving depicting Greek and Roman gods with Juno Venus Neptune and others.
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Edouard Richter
Galaxy of
Fine Arts
Parnassus
Manteena
Louvre
le Par
Mars
Venus
Cupid
Vulcan
Introduction to the Art Treasures Port folio
The piece argues that American taste for fine arts has grown rapidly, matching European culture. It credits masters with elevating taste, notes the rise of renowned schools, and observes how high value of art isolates works within galleries from the masses.
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America
Reproductions of Great Masters Offered at Ten Cents
The article explains how photo and half tone reproductions make famous masterpieces affordable for the broader public. A 16 part Portfolio of Art Treasures is sold at ten cents plus a coupon, with descriptive material by a noted connoisseur.
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Europe
America
Raphael
Vandyck
Raynaud
Piero di Cosimo
Titian
Jacquez
Garofalo
Jules Joseph Meynier
H. Leopold Levy
A. Becklin
Primattccio
J. I. Gerome
Hans Ma
the Post
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Vestal
Vesta
Henri Paul Motte
Olympus
Ernest di Liphart
Mount Olympus
Heavenly Sphere
Earth
Jupiter
Juno
Neptune
Latona
Apollo
Diana
Pallas
Mercury
Ceres
Pan
Time
Kronos
Saturn
Liphardt
Heaven
Oriental Beauty
F. A. Bridgman
Mihaly Munkacsy
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