Byron had no ear for music.

Pope preferred a street organ to Handel's Messiah.

The piano was unknown before the eighteenth century.

"Art lies in concealing art," is a phrase credited to Ovid.

"It was in Greece that sculpture first became an ideal art."

Rococo now applies to whatever is fantastic in decorative art.

It was Schelling who described architecture as "frozen music."

Emanuel Bach is said to have been the first writer for the pianoforte.

The name "Painter of Nature" was given to the French poet Bel-lean.

The harp is mentioned in Genesis (iv. 21), and is still in use and favor.

Sir W. Scott was wholly ignorant of pictures and quite indifferent to music.

In melodrama, strictly defined, music is always introduced into the dialogue.

Of late the term "fine arts" has become limited to painting and sculpture.

The art of cameo cutting reached its highest perfection in Greece and Rome.

The English artist Hogarth said that "genius is nothing but labor and diligence."

Giovanni Cimabue of Florence (1240-1300) is called the Father of Modern Painters.

Goethe has said that "the first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."

Stradivarius, who did so much to perfect the violin, lived in the seventeenth century.

Frescoes are of very great antiquity and have been found in Egypt, at Pompeii and elsewhere.

When beauty and grace are combined with utility and strength, architecture becomes a fine art.

Opus is a title given to each separate production of a composer. They are numbered in succession.

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," not "beast" - is the true quotation from Congreve.

Centuries before our Longfellow, Chaucer had written: "the lyfe so short, the crafte so long to lerne.".

It was Raphael who did most " to define the true limits and the true capabilities of purely decorative art."

The patron saint of "artists and smiths" is St. Eloi (588-659), master of the mint in the reign of Clotaire II.

The finest specimens of Peruvian masonry extant are to be found in the ruins of Cuzco, an old capital of the state.

The place where the chorus stood in the Greek theatre has given us a word that now refers to the musicians - orchestra.

The nimbus or halo painted around the heads of holy personages, is claimed to have been derived from later Greek art.

Renaissance is the name specifically given to the revival of the classic style of art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

As a portrait painter Van Dyok is second only to Titian. His "Children of Charles I," in the Dresden gallery, is well known.

The general term " gem sculpture" refers to designs worked upon precious stones, as cameos, or cut into the surface as intaglios.

Michelangelo was a giant in sculpture, painting and architecture. All his work is marked by "a mysterious and awful grandeur."

Egypt reached the zenith of her political greatness and her architecture its highest development between 1600 B.C. and 1300 B.C.

Greek paintings were executed in distemper with glue, milk, or white of eggs, and on wood, clay, plaster, stone, parchment and canvas.

For richness of coloring, beauty of form, the portrayal of the sensuous and the painting of the human face, few have surpassed Titian.

Flamboyant was a style of Gothic architecture (1500-1600) in which the tracery of windows, panels, etc., had a wave or flame-like form.

The "Statuesque" school of French artists was that founded by David (1748-1825), who was himself called the Painter of the Revolution.

The cathedral of St. Mark's at Venice, with its many rich mosaics, is considered by some one of the most remarkable buildings in the world.

The Laocoon, a masterpiece of the Rhodian school [323-146 B.C.], "is said to express physical pain and passion better than other existing groups."

The Temple of Karnac, an imposing ruin, is a striking example of the grandeur, the grace and the magnitude of many of the Egyptian temples.

Corot, Millet and Bougereau are among the best of the modern French school, which to-day is enjoying a position it never before attained.

The grand decorations of the Sistine Chapel ceiling were the work of five years, and form a characteristic masterpiece of Michel Angelo.

In the twenty-first verse of the fourth chapter of Genesis we read that Jubal was "the father of all such as handle the harp and organ."

The clavichord is an obsolete musical instrument of the same type as the harpsichord and spinet. A claviharp is a harp struck with keys like a piano.

There are five orders of architecture: the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite, of which the Tuscan and Composite are Roman and the other three Greek.

Though in its earliest days Christianity in its asceticism was hostile to art, still we find many of the highest forms of mediaeval art and architecture in the Church.

The finest ancient marble was that from Paros, called Parian; the next best were from Mount Pentelicus and Hymettus, near Athens. The finest modern marble is from Carrara.

Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Chopin, Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn, who are still without peers in the music of Germany, all lived and died within a century.

The oldest existing statue is one of wood, admirably modeled, col-1 ored, and with eyes of crystal. It is of a man named Ra-em-ke, an Egyptian, and dating from about B. c. 4000.

The early representations of Christ in painting were purposely devoid of all attraction; in the eighth century Adrian I. decreed that Christ should be represented as beautiful as possible.

The mosaics in the Church of St. Mark, in Venice, are the finest in the world. They cover 40,000 square feet of the upper walls, ceilings, and cupolas, and are all laid on a gold ground.