IT  ALT.

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Arti,”  in  Vigevano-Lomellina,  drawing  is  practieed  without  the
least  System.  A  good  commencement  is  made  in  Ornament  after
the  French  manner;  but  otherwise  landscapes,  flowers,  &c.,  are
copied  purely  after  the  amateur  fashion,  while  drawing  from  the
cast  is  very  deficient.  The  specimens  sent  by  the  “  Scuola  Communale
  Maschile-Feminile  ”  of  Codogno,  although  consisting  only
of  show-pieces,  must  also  be  condemned.  With  the  exception  of
some  well-drawn  heads,  all  these  specimens  exhibited  a  want  of
training,  of  comprehension  of  form,  and  of  execution.
Yery  excellent  specimens  in  linear  drawing  were  shown  by  the
“Istituto  Tecnico”  of  Mantua  in  machine  drawing  and  architecture,
  as  well  as  in  topographical  drawing.  The  “  Reale  Istituto ­
  Industriale  ”  at  Piacenza  exhibited  a  collection  of  casts  from
nature  and  from  Ornaments,  which  can  be  recommended  for  instruction
  in  drawing.
The  “  Patrio  Istituto  Manin  ”  of  Yenice  was  also  represented  at
Vienna  by  Superior  specimens,  the  same  as  at  Paris  at  the  time
of  the  last  Exhibition.  In  the  first  course  instruction  progresses
from  simple  geometrical  forms  to  more  complicated  Ornaments  in
the  usual  manner  ;  and  in  the  second  course  drawing  from  plastic
models  iä  taken  up.  These  drawings  (in  India  ink  and  in  pencil)
were  most  exact  and  artistic  in  their  execution.  The  main  stress,
however,  is  laid  upon  drawing  with  reference  to  the  various  specialties,
  all  branches  of  which  were  represented  by  eminently
successful  specimens.  Linear  drawing  appears  to  receive  less
care.  Quite  a  peculiar  method  is  employed  for  the  first  stages
of  instruction  in  the  “Reale  Scuola  Tecnica”  at  Venice.  Constructive
  perspective  is  here  practieed;  but  freehand  work  is
sometimes  introduced  into  the  same  drawing  (glaring  mistakes,
however,  were  noticeable  here  and  there)  ;  this  is  followed  up  by
the  study  of  objects  from  nature  (minutely  executed),  and  constructive
  drawing  of  a  very  defective  quality.  The  greatest  part
of  the  labor  in  most  of  these  drawings  had,  however,  been  expended
upon  the  borders  surrounding  them.  These  borders  were  frequently
quite  artistic  in  execution,  the  most  complicated  Greek  and  Renaissance ­
  Ornaments  having  been  employed  ;  and  they  must  have  taken
three  or  four  times  the  time  devoted  to  the  drawings  themselves.
The  projections  were  good,  and  tolerably  well  finished.;  there  were
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