Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 55]

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49 The hall is 61x78 feet. The "wall is tinted a dark maroon color, making a beautiful background for the white casts. The arrangement is such that a view is obtained, on entering, of nearly every thing in the room, the first sight being impressive, and ordinarily eliciting exclamations of surprise from the hundreds of visitors passing the threshold. Statues.—There are sixteen full-sized statues, among which are the Laocoon Group, Venus de Milo, Venus de Medicis, Diana de Gabies, Faun of Praxiteles, Gibson's Venus, Dying Slave of Michael Angelo, etc. Of the reduced size statues, there are forty-two, including the Apollo Belvidere, Diana the Huntress, Achilles, Minerva, Dying Gladiator, etc. There are ninety-two full-sized busts, representing famous persons of all ages, from Homer to many now living. Among these, we find ten Eoman Emperors, Hippocrates, Socrates, Demosthenes, Cicero, Lord Bacon, Dr. Johnson, Gladstone, Washington, Webster, Douglas, Lincoln, etc. There are twentyeight busts of smaller size from the best artists. Bas-Reliefs.—Forty-two pieces. We name, as among the prominently noticeable ones, the Architrave of the celebrated Ghiberti gates in the Baptistery at Florence, Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Assyrian Sculpture excavated in 1848, Lion Hunt, Four Seasons, etc. Medallion Beads.—Large size, twenty-seven; smaller, four hundred and ninety. These have their names stamped upon them. Engravings.—There are fifty-four beautiful engravings from paintings by Kaphael, Landseer, David, Hessig, Turner, Hogarth, etc. Photographs.—Two- hundred and thirty-two. Eoman views, views of Venice, Switzerland, of noted paintings, of bas-reliefs, etc. , Portraits.—Four hundred and seven lithographs of eminent personages, mostly. French, with name, date and other information marked on each.

COUKSE OF INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN.

Students not seeking a professional training may yet avail themselves of the two years' course in industrial art. Any person of ordinary ability who faithfully completes this course will be qualified to teach drawing and designing in the public schools, or enter professions with great advantage in the various branches of industry, where artistic skill and taste are indispensable to success.

FIBST TEBM.

(Exercises in outline.) Elements of Form; Analysis of Compound Forms; Elementary Designs; Elementary Perspective by aid of objects; Elements of Historic Ornaments; Memory Exercises.

SECOND TEBM.

Enlargement and Shading from copy; Ornamental Designs from plant form; Naturalistic and Conventional Arrangement; Harmonious Lines and Distribution of Form; Perspective Drawing of Objects, Plants, etc. Features of the Human Head; History of Early Art.

THIED TEBM.

Outline Drawing and Shading from Casts of Ornament; Application of Decorative Forms to flat and round surfaces under various conditions; Designs for specified objects; Advanced Perspective and Shadows; Harmony a,nd Contrast of Color, (Lectuies on Art and its History).

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