Show J V t SECRETS V 3 V TO I t Norwegian Sculptor Is the Dis- Dis v coverer of Lost Long I I 1 A r Art r t I rI I il Christian Dane Daae Ing Is one of whom 01 W t We tt call benefactors lIels Js n. Jl n fl honor o to Inns hIs J ferne writes r linings whose opinion of men and I Ir iun carries than that hat o of more an lout any other writer In of nf orl ora or of a follow or Of out I I who r 1 at present In New ew cw York j I 1 T 1 1 whose Th oi fame T Tm of r. r I o a 5 sc work ork Is la weB Known throughout I I gold cold Scandinavia a ld medal mind nd who has lias I Ic c Ml I tl till Ow f g of the Paris salon I will not nol be I long long- confined to tp Norway Nora however er His lIs i name namo Is h destined I to live always alwn's In the an- an I nals mats of or the thc fine arts for Cor or after after t thirty years eaiS of or under arduous toll toil always ys under the shadow of poverty Po tint that was as embittered by bJ- the this ridicule and even e the contempt of his hilt townspeople ople he lie ha has rediscovered an art that hal has been lost lo u for tor more than than LOJ years ars dl discovery disco er co IK Is the process for Cor the thc composition of at clay such as v Was vs s usel used by the ancient Greek noc and Roman Itoman scull lors 8 that Is capable of Lei i tired fired at high I temperature without cracking or sot ink ink- bIg ill and whereby u n statue nI may be constructed cons con con con- 1 I s I over an Iron Irol of or Woo wooden on gk skeleton from which the artist mil may transfer It to lo marble ou or take direct from bronze the u use c 0 of plaster being hereafter entirely 1 unnecessary TillS This discovery l er eo Is la of or great historical and archaeological Interest also mince fine It proves definite definitely that at t the le hl hI highest hest period pe pe- of ot ancient art the thc t sculptor used a a. C material Instead of the thc na- na natural 1 i tural cIa clay that has been employed for th the last twenty Vent twenty fIve centuries a circumstance I 1 that tha t has hitherto been mere merely conjectural ural The Tho nest genuineness of oC MaRo ns n's n discovery cry ery is attested b by among others other such authorities a as Cecil Smith director of or the department of or Gr Greek ck and Roman Homan an an- In to the British museum mucum director o of the Ko Hoal al Nat li hn hnat n. n al at museum O. O Korte first secretary of oC the Imperial German in lu institute l In Rome Home the Danish sculptor 1115 on an and Has the thc Italian culp sculptors culpI tors and Monteverdi and ad thin tho American sculptor Franklin Simmons I now In Home Rome These authorities a agree rec that thai the Norwegians Norwegian's discovery tr Is destined to lo revolutionize revolutionize the present moth meth of or sculpture and to lo revive ro the process I b by which the made cle terr terra cotta i statues and statuettes that has been forgotten forgotten for for- gotten olten since COO years yearn tJore Christ I It Tt wan vas In Rome nome that Ia e en first got ot t the e idea that ire tre ancients must have worked in a different material and lJ by different methods to obtain the results they achl achieved ved spent cl eight ht yea years ear is in Rome In 1577 he a beautiful Italian n for fOl ht hp was then p prosperous and with com corn missions from visiting Norwegians lan t Swede and Danes he had been able to lo I I j jI I make a 0 com comfortable living Now how how- mow mow- ever r. hard lures came upon him there was a dearth rth df dr foreign visitor to Rome Ronit- i and hi his loIIS became fewer ew r and fewer Finally 1 In he lie went bad back toi to i Chr with his wife and two child chil- chil d dren ren I I Here his prospects did cUd not Improve c and the fact that his mind wa was always set sel on onI I I finding the material In which the ancient i I I sculptors worked was not cal calculated 11 to lo further them Continual experimenting I I I took toole all alt the money he could earn an and anal he ho i seldom a II commission lon h ba cause he lie I I he became came with In hl his work anti and de- de dc I It IL Matters went from tram bad had ito to wore The people lo lost t faith In a sc sculptor r tor or who broke up Ill the tho statues he made e and JIul thc they lau laughed h at 11 him for tor a crazy man in to in fn his search for a a. l lost art sn ways a I ho lie can not understand I to today ho how he kept life In hr his hi family and I himself during those trying times lUnes I 1 lad Bad n as things s were at that J period erld worse remained behind and It is 19 to lo tale tnt tho tile dis discredit I credit of the ell city of or that th the officers of tre government were wel I prime movers mO in the persecution of an nn In In- i and anti worth worthy citizen who whose c only onh crime lay in III his being an nn hast Ina in ina I Ia a matter mailer they were unable to understand j v 1 I it It came carne to pass at last that M 1 g wax was unable to pay ho house remit and anti a a wC wealthy banker cr who had been one ono of or his h schoolmates eh gave cave him the thc to 10 build n ft hOHl house thou C. C h the thc artist was waa com corn to provide pro the round around for i Jt t him him- s self lr Tore tire lie Dim Uit n It Ills II III i. i l' l c. c In the outskirts of oC was tae n a stretch of vacant ind II u useless eleu hind be- be longing longing- to the municipality upon which Magelssen asked permission t to construct con- con his house paying paying- an nn annual rental He III was wag Informed b by the mu mu- muI I authorities that II he ml might ht use uso the land provided pro he would sign an agreement lt vacate I to vacate it and remove ve the house fourteen rO days das In case the I land should KhouM ever ho bo needed b by the city i Being Informed h by the bishop of Ch Chris ris and a eft cUr city magistrate that this was was a u mer mere men formality and antl that there I I was Wi lint tint the slightest t-It t possibility that I the municipally would ever vor need the land Magelssen signed this agreement lie He then built hit his house himself whit wita lh th the assistance of or a stogie single carpenter and borrowed d money to furnish It obtaining obtaining- further permission to erect small a stu- stu illo c Jt it i j c 3 v c 4 Magelssen declares that time the brief p pu 1 nod Jio he lived In this house was wan the nap Hap J l of hi Ills life liCe because In site of ur terrible U poverty IIO he Ile can carry oft bit r hib j and nHI cx Inter luiei- InterI I nn and IJa pass 8 lila his uric urlet d ti re recreation 1 with hl his family However It lUK 1 hod occupied the tile house houge six nix months when th the rune pum un magistrate le who hn tad assured him that the agreement lo tu vacate locate was wan a g fur formality put th the n agreement agreement agree agree- Iee 1 I ment he had I signed Into c execution I For Kor 10 the tho HI-HI HI time lint in Norway th they y pullets do u n mans man's house says iy u Ma- Ma I 1 1 don't dont 1 blame bonnie anho anybody y It Il V WI i the will of or God I II Ic 1 hlll fin I I Howe er cr although l and und hu hits Ii IiI I family ran IJ suffered d mall mun many he managed t to 1 k cp a roof root over O their heads heals end to continue lilts his work and expert 1 j I In ments nt The rhe a Eo piece of or good rood fortune came to ru him hint fur for UI he made static a it ollon In which Invention whir I brought him In Ju Hurtt- Hurtt II cleat rl revenue to tu support t hl Ills family famil family After t r having devoted de the tiro best beet part pait of or orI I t nl twenty Y-oI Y lIr years of or Ills 11 lift life t. t to till h j I search arch for or the lost It t h il lieI lie bt- I Igan gUll Fun t to despair of or ever 11 covering db-covering it J u u. 4 and r d iI ho would o d ha have ti discontinued o 4 ie JJr his CX ex experiments hind had he lie not been dissuaded hy by his wife wIre It U was just lust at rat tilts tills time times Ma- Ma Mi zaps says that he seemed to hc hear hearn r rn n voice crying In ill his Ills oar far night and und lh day What is clu clay What Is clay thin The elements of ur common comment cia clay were WIO all ap- r ru proximately x one fifth one one- nod and one one fifth water venter with lime lIIa magnesia and anti oxide of or Iron often ofton present resent as Impurities Tilt The Idea came to tv him to powder stone for time the silicate and anti combine It with the oth othel r elements to n make mitre e an artificial clu clay Ills first experiment showed him i that he was WillS on the right track but bui although he lie was able abl to 0 matte make a u mod mod- sling cling g stuff sturt that sculptors admitted watt wan I superior to CoI common luton cIa clay and that would stand drying on Iron or wood It crumbled crumbled crum crum- bled tt when hen subjected 10 to heat After unree c store mor yea years is u of or experiment hoe however how host e ever l' l h In- In obtained complete results and la K-IV K av buck to the world an on anan anart I art an that so southern had discovered discovered ered and lost more than thus twenty live centuries t ur ot before |