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                                     TEE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBIT10N.
The Exhibition is indebted to Signor RoSmTES, an accomplished -sculptor of
Milan, for the productions add much value to the Italian Court, where
two beautiful works that adorn this-         page; they are of marble.  
The
CHXnr-PiRcE is exquisitely carved,           all the minor details being
finished
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 with exceeding care. The STATUE is a work of high sculptural Art. -Both
of these they' are associated with so many artistic treasures.
 -Enough remained of the stores. that had been borrowed from the    We are
passing through this intermediate period at the 'presertt
 rich treasury of classic antiquity, to show the source of what did moment;
and we now are in the act of struggling to - rescue our
 duty for Art 'in the eighteenth century,- while the dignity 'of the revival
of Art from  subsiding into another example of Art oIL a
 original authorities was obscured, if not altogether overwhelmed, great
scale repeating itself.                     -
 by -the trivial and inanimate elaborations of superficial orna-e  Very remarkable
is the manner in which our revival of Art
 mentation.            -                                         has expressed
both the energy of its spirit and the uncertainty
 T This was a condition of things that contained within 'itself the I of
its aim. Our revivers have rushed: at once to some fo'untain-
 elements of its own dissolution. That Art should revive again in head or
other of Art, holding all to be equally salutarv in them-
 strength, and nobleness, and independence, and once more should  selves,
equally copious in their productiveness, and equa ysueitable.
 become historical of nations and eras, was more. than could have to provideforus
the unadulterated suppliesthatwehavediscovered
 been .expected without an' intermediate - period in' which the ourselves
to require with urgent need.   - -
 residuum of the Renaissance might be swept away; and a course      On the
one side, the classic Renaissance in its first integrity and
 of sharp discipline made the prelude to truly glorious -Revival.'  completeness,
or inits stead a direct andpositive adoption of the Arts
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