Word: art
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fine Arts 2, Professor Norton has finished his lectures on Greek Art...
...attempt is being made by Professor Blake and prominent citizens of New Haven, to establish a museum of art in the old State House...
...Art School has recently received Probst's "Portrait Study," a painting sent by Austria to Philadelphia, where it obtained a prize; also, some autotypes of Michael Angelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel, a copy of the "Wrestlers" from a Florence gallery, and a collection of casts from the principal statues and busts in the Vatican have been added to the school's collection. Two prizes of $50 each, and two of $100 each, are annually given for the best specimens of drawing and painting by the students...
...supply its place with the aid of the American one-sidedness of some talkative old specialist. If you want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession. If you want some information about art, do the same with an artist. And in general, it will pay to get out of your fellow-beings all the information that they will give you. If you can make other people do your reading for you it will save your eyes, and a good deal of trouble besides...
...proposed to give a series of twelve lectures or readings at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, by Professor Norton, Professor J. R. Lowell, Professor Child, and Professor Bocher, for the benefit of the Fine Art Department of Harvard College. These will be given on successive Wednesday evenings, at 7.30, beginning January 3. The price of tickets will be five dollars for the course. Subscriptions received at the University Bookstore...