Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most highly prized item is the Morgan loan, a thirteenth century bestiary, the "Description of Animals" of Ibn Bakhtishu, the earliest known manuscript of the Mongol period of Persian art. The book was copied for the Emperor Ghazan Khan, of the Genghis Khan dynasty, and contains 94 colored drawings of animal subjects...
These films meet a very definite educational need in the University at large, besides being first-class entertainment, because they are instructive in that they present the best in motion picture art for any given period, and show the development of the technique and setting of the industry in logical and instructive sequence. The Film Society may well be proud of its achievements if it repeats its successes of last season...
Leading LaGuardians on the board are Columbia University's roly-poly Professor Joseph D. McGoldrick, currently running for comptroller of the city, and ruddy, fast-talking John T. Flynn, writer and economist. Others include Author Ordway Tead, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Schlossberg. Art Critic Lewis Mumford is the one who resigned...
Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...