Abstract

Fine Arts

The article presents information on schools of art. The objects and the uses of a Museum of Art are, people think, overlooked or belittled, as a consequence of an ardent and proper advocacy of other means of education. Schools of art are good things, and are not entirely unknown even to this community. Schools for the instruction of those who would be painters or sculptors already exist-few, indeed, but their importance is universally admitted, and it is only the ease with which the great schools of Europe are reached that delays a little longer the foundation of many more. It is just here that the Museums of Art should be brought into the body of teaching as standards of right and wrong, tribunals of appeal. Silent teachers, they are not less eloquent because of their silence. Their mission is to get together works of art of all schools and epochs.