Old And Sold Antiques Auciton

Thousands of articles from the past.

The Field In New York And Vicinity - (Found June 29, 2008 )

NEW YORK, the exponent of the present, the representative of the modern, the strenuous city of the twentieth century, would scarcely be looked upon as a place for the collector of the antique.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/colonial-8.shtml

Rome - Some Sculptures In The Capitol - (Found June 29, 2008 )

It was that room, in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the dying gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-19.shtml

Ruskin On The Nature Art - (Found June 29, 2008 )

REAL AND FALSE ART. To be quite formal and systematic we ought to ask, before proceeding to further inquiries, this question: Is Art a real thing, worth serious consideration or only a chimaera, a delusion Does it exist
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-2.shtml

Modern Sculpture - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THE tendency of modern sculpture, like that of modern painting, has been toward a greater liberty of subject and treatment.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-20.shtml

Plantation Melodies - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Unfortunately for our poetry at least, the United States sprang into existence, a civilized, intelligent, prosaic nation, almost entirely devoid of the national body of folk-lore which every great European people considers a priceless treasure of antiquity.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-34.shtml

Song In The Home - (Found June 29, 2008 )

The traditions which song makes are of the most lasting character and are among the choicest cultural possessions of life.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-35.shtml

A Study Of Beethoven - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Beethoven is the most childlike of musicians, and of all artists it is most natural to the musician to be Childlike.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-36.shtml

The Ideas Of Wagner - (Found June 29, 2008 )

IN The Art-work of the Future, Wagner defines art as an immediate vital act, the expression of man, as man is the expression of nature.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-37.shtml

Life Sketches Of Composers Of Classical Music - (Found June 29, 2008 )

DELPHIN ALARD was one of the great French teachers of the violin, and a writer of valuable studies for the instrument.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-38.shtml

Life Sketches Of Composers Classical Songs - (Found June 29, 2008 )

FRANZ ABT composed songs that have become of enduring popularity throughout Germany, and part songs that rival Mendelssohn's in the affections of the Germans.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/culture-39.shtml