International studio (26.1905)

WALL PAINTING FOR A SCHOOL

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BY FAHRENKROG

Figaro, who visits the hamlets on Sunday morning,
is shaving a peasant under the shade of a chestnut-
tree, while the others who are waiting for their turn
form an admirably natural group. The transparent
blue of the sky is as noteworthy as is the rest of
this fresh, robust, and wholesome painting.
—
These are some of the more important of Malhoa's
works distributed among different European galleries
and private collections. French criticism has some-
times considered his compositionsvigorous to excess,
even to brutality; but everyone recognises the power
and sincerity that are his chief characteristics.
R. S.

ture from the commonplace monuments which
crowd every burial-place.
# ^ALERMO.—Antonio Ugo, the able sculp-
[ tor of Palermo, already known to readers
of THE STUDto, has been exhibiting
at the International Exhibition at Venice
a half-length in marble representing Cardinal
Celesia, Archbishop of Palermo. This admirable
work, which has attracted so much warm admiration,
and which we are glad to bring to our readers'
notice, has been acquired by the Italian Govern-
ment for the National Gallery of Modern Art in
Rome.

T T ANOVER.-The
] ] monument illus-
trated has been
designed by
Herr G. Herting for the
family grave of a man and
his wife at Hanover, the two
graves being shown by the
sarcophageal slabslyingside
by side, and surrounded by
a semicircular wall pro-
vided with a seat or bench.
The material employed is
basalt, while the cachepots
are of beaten copper. In
its originality the design
marks a welcome depar-


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