378 INTERNATIONAL ARCH^OLOGICAL CONGRESS. 



27. An estimate of tlie character of the ancient schools of painting of Liege 

 and Tournai, and their influence on the development of the Flemish school. 



28. What were the causes of the development of the fine arts in Flanders in 

 the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and what was the influence of this artistic 

 movement in France, and especially in Burgundy ? 



29. To what point did the religious dogmas of the Druids prepare the propa- 

 gation of Christianity among the Gauls and Britons ? 



30. What was the origin of the Exchange {Bourse) in commerce? 



31. Is it conclusively established that the brothers Van Eyck were the in- 

 ventors of painting in oil ? 



32. What are the best means for awakening in the people the sesthetic senti- 

 ment? Do artistic exhibitions promise in this respect the desired effect? 



33. Whence did the ancient tribes of Mexico, which, according to Aztec tradi- 

 tion, arrived in the twelfth century in the valley of An ahuac, derive their origin? 



34. What date is to be assigned to the compilation of the first book of the 

 Chronicles of Froissart? Distinguish in this first book what pertains properly 

 to that historian, and indicate what he has borrowed, together with the interpo- 

 lations or alterations which his work may have undergone. 



35. Do the Assyrian monuments discovered up to this time, and the studies 

 of which they have been the object, enables us to state the distinctive characters 

 of Assyrian art, or to recognize any traces of that art in the Hellenic and Etrus- 

 can civilizations ? 



