Word: 400th
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Through Jan. 16, the Frick Collection in New York City is marking the 400th anniversary of Velazquez's birth with a small but choice loan show--six paintings from New York museums. Some are well known, like the portrait of Juan de Pareja, Velazquez's Moorish slave and studio assistant. Others are less so, such as the fierce authoritarian portrait of Olivares, Philip IV's chief minister for finance and war. The show is an anti-blockbuster and not to be missed by anyone who cares about painting...
...opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City--it was shown late last year in his home city of Ferrara, and will go to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in April--is the first retrospective he has ever had. It comes on the 400th anniversary of the dispersal of most of his work, which was taken from Ferrara by papal edict and split up among various collectors, most of them Roman. His output has never been seen whole since. A team of scholars, headed by curators Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco, has done...
Hill heads into the weekend as the Ivy leader in assists (5.0 per game) and third on the Crimson over-all career assist list after giving out his 400th last weekend at Penn...
...Harvard's 400th Anniversary, he foresaw a truly international university. In his vision, by the year 2000, alumni would have endowed fellowships modeled on the Rhodes scholarships for students from more than 30 countries. By 2036, the number of foreign students would have increased to 5,000. Specialization in a foreign culture would be required of American undergraduates...
...just lost our poise a little bit at the end and that's about it," said Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, who won his 400th game--296 as the head coach--since arriving at Happy Valley...