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...speak like my parents, and then writing, I hope, on their behalf against the evil forces of Harvard. Many of those pieces were like this one: rhapsodic, far too reflective and deliberately ignorant to the world beyond Route 128. I even wrote my thesis about Cambridge in the 1630s. It's time to move...
...work of Rembrandt and his contemporaries and pupils makes up a substantial part of the Abrams' collection. An exhibition tag written by the Curator of Drawings William W. Robinson says that in the 1630s, Rembrandt developed his technique by creating hundreds of studies and drawings. His style juxtaposes "summarily indicated areas" in the subject's body with "intricately detailed penwork" that creates an expressive face. Rembrandt's pupils Doomer, Backer and Flinck reflected their mentor's style in their work. The exhibit contains six similar works by these artists--sketchy yet expressive chalk figure drawings on blue paper...
...dense and grand as architecture, ritually arranged as though on an altar. Perhaps the most remarkable of all, usually exhibited at the National Gallery in London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This is not the St. Francis of earlier legend, warbling to the birds of Assisi about Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Spanish Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries invented a new St. Francis, a death-haunted monk whose images would force the faithful to think about their own dissolution...
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY was founded in the 1630s, the town of Salem offered hundreds of beachfront acres for a campus. Harvard's founders, who liked the atmosphere of this city, chose instead to settle in Cambridge. In a few years, the University may wish it had built on sand...
...College on the Charles" was almost the "College on the Beach"--in the 1630s, when the Overssers of the hypothetical institution, now known as Harvard College, were searching for a location to settle, they came close to accepting an offer of 300 ocean-bordered acres of land in Salem, Mass. Instead, they chose Newtowne, which was renamed Cambridge the year the school opened...