Art: War Memorials

England plans, as a war memorial, a great bridge across the Thames at Charing Cross; France a gigantic monument (75 by 30 feet) to be placed against the cliffs near Grenoble (Isere). But Italy's memorial will be more striking than either—a huge monumental cross, laid flat on the mountainside, and sloping up to meet the summit of Monte San Micheler, crucial field of Italy's war. Black against the sky, a group of rushing figures typify the "Scythe of death." Pasteur, Painter "The great Pasteur began his public life as a portrait...

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