click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.11 But now there were twelve strokes to be sounded by the bell of the clock; and thus it happened, perhaps, that more of thought crept, with more of time, into the meditations of the thoughtful among those who reveled. And thus, again, it [...]
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…a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.10 But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery [...]
…there stalked a multitude of dreams.
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.09 There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude of [...]
…it was a gay and magnificent revel.
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.08 But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel. The tastes of the duke were peculiar. He had a fine eye for colors and effects. He disregarded the decora of mere fashion. His plans were bold and fiery, and [...]
…the giddiest grew pale…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.07 It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang; and when the minute-hand made the circuit of the face, and the hour [...]
…a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances.
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.06 There was no light of any kind emanating from lamp or candle within the suite of chambers. But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire that projected its rays [...]
…in no one of the apartments was there any lamp…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.05 These windows were of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened. That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example, in blue — and vividly blue were its windows. [...]
It was a voluptuous scene that masquerade.
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.04 It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence. It was a voluptuous [...]
…the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.03 But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep [...]
2011 Annual Student Art Exhibition – Accepted High School Entries & Award Winners
Award Winners (Award, Artist, Grade, Medium, Title, School) Best In Show- Randy Wagner, grade 12, paper mache, Gunner, South Vermillion High School 2-D 1st place -Zach Pearson, grade 12, newspaper, magazine collage, Off-White, Terre Haute North Vigo High School 2nd place -Tyesha Washington, grade 9, pastel, Be Proud, McLean High School 3rd place – Kendra [...]
