Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once more the Directors of the Fogg Art Museum have supplemented the important permanent collection by a notable loan exhibition. Such exhibitions have been held in Cambridge with increasing frequency for the last few years and they tend to make of the University museum a place of pilgrimage for lovers of good painting. In this instance, the exhibition has been arranged for the special use of students of Spanish art, but it should, for the two weeks it is on view, receive the attention of the University at large and the outside public...
...idea underlying the project is that the engineer must combine ideas and action, and must, in order to meet people of all classes successfully, have a knowledge and appreciation of the interests which are common to people who are educated. The art of expressing oneself freely, which is one of the objects of this course, is necessary for the engineer, since modern engineering requires him to appear before commissions, boards, and public bodies to present his material in non-technical form, and in a limited time. But in addition to the practical advantage of the training...
...think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets and one of the most popular.' The style is that of a lecturer, lively at times almost colloquial, but always full of matter, fresh and stimulating...
...picture is extremely beautiful in color, and Mr. Berenson believes that it bears favorable comparison with the famous Arezzo frescoes. It will be on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum for about a week...
...Conference on Painting by Della Francesca by Professor G. H. Edgell '09, in Fogg Art Museum...