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drawings into plastic works, wliich is certainly of great value to 
art-industry, is taken up somewhat too early; the surety in laying 
out the planes is wanting, wliich can only be obtained by thorough 
study of good sculptures, or of nature. In tliis wrestling with 
form, the pupil very naturally loses the individual, the intellectual 
in the conception, wliich belongs to the face as the fragrance does 
to the flower. The studies in relief were likewise wanting in finer 
feeling, and often in the organic flow of the forms, wliich, again, 
can only be obtained by thorough anatomical study, and a skill 
well schoolecl by the antique. The high, almost round treatment 
now in vogue might also be replaced with advantage by the noble 
profile of the Parthenon reiiefs, as this would accustom the pupils, 
and more especially the beginners, to a severer adhesion to form. 
The style shown by the numerous Ornaments exhibited has 
before been indicated; they all gave evidence of the technical 
skill of the pupils. 1 Neatly executed modellings in w r ax, most 
of them intended for the ornamentation of vessels, Utensils, 
&c., must also be mentioned. Tliere were also exhibited very 
beautiful, sometimes indeed exemplary, designs for furniture, 
wliich had been executed in the Institution; and it may be said 
in general, that the productions of the school in this department 
are very laudable, especially in churcli furniture. In the archl- 
tectural designs the Gothic style predominates ; and the extensive 
activity of the institution in this respect was illustrated by photo- 
graphs and drawings. The wood-carvings and the Ornaments in 
plaster moved within the sphere of the Gothic style and of the 
Renaissance, and likewise left nothing to be desired as regards 
technical perfection. As to the drawings, the only fault to be 
found was, that they were finished “ too mnch.’*' Time is money, 
more especially to the disciplcs of art; and the lithographic 
stippling of planes, backgrounds, &c., is not onty waste of time,, 
but it is also deadening to the intellect. In the execution in draw-- 
ing, the German, as well as the Italian schools, may still look. 
upon the French as models, i.e., tliey may learn from them the 
shortest way to the purpose by tlie simplest means. It appears, 
1 The institution reproduces most of the works of its pupils, for the use of 
otlier schools; and four huudreil aud thirty-six models have so far been pub- 
iislied for this purpose,