Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are also more than enough works of the Impressionists to satisfy their most ardent fans Renoir, Degas. Manet--the Fogg has works by the whole lot. That is to say nothing of Rembrandt and the other Flemish hordes. some great modern painters and lots of wonderfully gruesome religious art. You can even go and gaze adoringly at Picassos should you wish to do so. Whatever your tastes the Fogg can cater to them; sumptuous nudes or tully draped Madonnas, tranquil still-lives or colorful battle scenes, sculpture or painting, ancient or modern, whatever takes your fancy...
...FOGG also has an extensive art and photography library which makes a nice change from Lamont, which, incidentally, is the most hideous building in the Western Hemisphere. As Alice pointed out "what are books without pictures and conversation." The Fogg library is well equipped to satisfy your need for both. Lastly, for those who prefer their media mixed, there are also free chamber music concerts at 6 p.m. and gallery talks at 7 p.m. on the museum collections every Thursday evening...
...time without question the most formidable because his goals are the same as theirs and he will be more effective in attempting to achieve them," Nixon wrote. "What we must always bear in mind in dealing with the Soviets is that while lying is an accepted practice in the art of diplomacy, there is a difference where the Communists are concerned. They believe their lies...
...hardly visit the great exhibition of English Gothic art, "The Age of Chivalry," which opened this month at the Royal Academy in London, without mixed feelings of delight, surfeit and loss. The first, obviously, because this is the first show to trace so large a part of England's cultural inheritance. It starts in 1216 with the enthronement of Henry III and ends with the death of the last Plantagenet, Richard II, in 1399, a span of nearly 200 years that brought Gothic art to England from France...
...whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more besides. It traces the patronage of five Plantagenet kings and has a lot to say about how works of art were commissioned by the nobility and the great merchants, executed by their makers and read by the audience. It wanders off into didactic byways and outlines, among other things, the changing reactions to Gothic art and the problem of its conservation for later generations of antiquaries and romantics in the 18th and 19th...