NINETEENTH CENTURY ART
Bv what building would the Art of the twentieth century allow itself to be judged?
If Ave walk with open eyes through a wholly modem city as Berlin or New York what shall we single out as characteristic of our century ? Grecian Art, would be content to be judged by the Parthenon; Gothic Art by Lincoln Minster or Notre Dame of Paris. These buildings, so characteristic or the age and people that gave them being, borrowed nothing from other ages and peoples save the essential principles of construction and decoration, the accepted alphabet of form and colour.
They borrowed from the past only the bare necessaries of life, which their own life expanded into the complex life of full-grown Art. Lincoln Minster is as characteristic of Christian civilisation as the Parthenon is of Grecian civilisation,, and these two are, in truth and in art, blood-kindred in spite of the intervening centuries.—Rev. Vincent JYleNabb, 0.P., 'Twice-'Dyed Thoughts' (Sheed and Ward).
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 83, 27 July 1942, Page 6
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162NINETEENTH CENTURY ART Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 83, 27 July 1942, Page 6
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