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Modern Art Dents: The relation between the Antonine and Hadrianic walls is obscure, but the former, perhaps because of its slightly later date, seems to have been somewhat superior to the latter in better economy of material and in more closely set forts along its line. Few remains exist of any of the walls save the last, which may still be easily traced.
ROMANCE, a fictitious narrative in prose or verse, the interest of which turns upon incidents either marvelous or uncommon. The name is derived from the class of languages in which such narratives in modern art dents times were first widely known and circulated: these were the French, Italian, and Spanish, called the Romance Languages (q.v.).
The attack on Burckhardt's conception bega in the 20th century and came principally froi students of the Middle Ages. More profound stt dents of medieval life cast doubt on the propos tion that in the Middle Ages man had been cor scious of himself only as a member of a grou (church, guild, or commune), and had had n realization of his potentialities as an individua Research in the history of institutions showed th; the modern art dents state owed far more, for example, t the feudal monarchies of the 12th and 13th cer turies than to the Italian city-states of the 14t and 15th. It was pointed out also that the reviv; of trade and indeed the whole basis of the coir mercial revolution did not coincide with the cer turies of the Italian cultural advances.
5. modern art dents and Contemporary Art In painting, Prof. Oscar Ko-koschka, teaching in the International University Courses for Creative Art in Salzburg, is widely known. In sculpture, a leading figure is Prof. Wo-truba. In architecture, Prof. Clemens Holzmeister has made his mark in numerous secular and religious buildings in Vienna and the provinces. Academies for Creative and Applied Arts, in Vienna, are attracting students of many nations. Like other war-devastated lands of Europe, Austria has found that the razing of large sections by bombs has not been quite an unmixed curse. It has cleared the way for new men, with vigorous new ideas, to erect interesting buildings, interestingly decorated, as he who tours may see. |
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