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...next century. Its proportions are so gargantuan that even an unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
Another Harvard-Cornell team made the news this week when an expedition of Harvard and Cornell archaeologists announced the discovery of an altar to the goddess Artemis in Sardis, Turkey, the ancient capital of King Croesus...
George M. Hanfmann, director of the expedition and professor of Fine Arts, said the altar was the most important new finding of the summer...
Built more than 2000 years ago during the reign of King Croesus, this altar to Artemis is the oldest religious structure in the Lydian capital...
...outstanding picture in the bequest, Sassetta's Our Lady of the Snow, is arguably the greatest surviving work by this unprolific Sienese master and worth, according to a spokesman at Christie's, "about $1,500,000." But it was stolen 60 years ago from the high altar of the church at Chiusi, near Siena, and purchased later by Contini-Bonacossi...